From: Guy P. <ga...@ri...> - 2006-02-23 23:07:12
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Vito, I would boot into the Debian installer image, exit the setup to get to the shell, and do a mount of your partition to something like "/floppy" or another mount point that the installer image provides. The mount program in the debian installer image will automatically do a repair during the mount that will fix your partition. I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off during startup recovery too. I have found that the only work-around is to boot from the installer and run mount. --Guy -----Original Message----- From: nub...@li... [mailto:nub...@li...] On Behalf Of Vito Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 5:56 PM To: nub...@li... Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Thanks again. This install finally broke after having been shgutdown one too many times. Now what I get is the boot screen stuck at ext3-fs: INFO recovery required on readonly filesystem. by the way, I had installed the battery manager from debian for gmome and x , perhaps if I hadn't done this the pmu would not have acted up. I'll download the miboot.image to my work computer and home computer in the next day - so that if you need to erase it from the server , you may. and ext3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery... and ther it hangs. So I am in the market for a larger hard drive and I will probably wiat till I get it till I install again - which I hope is very soon. No, no I didn't mean to imply that there was anything funny about German except perhaps my very poor attempts at schiebing it or spraching it. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Tobias Netzel <tob...@t-...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 1:23:01 PM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Hi Vito, that problem is related to the PMU. The PMU is also the part that is responsible for battery charging. It is always working when any power supply is available. And it is indeed totally independant of any OS. The PMU controls the power to all other devices in the PowerBooks and will turn the system power off if the OS doesn't respond and react the way it expects it to do. I'm currently using a kernel with a PMU driver that I patched in order to prevent these power offs. I have had none so far in one week. I did not use it that often but quite a few hours. You can download the miboot kernel image from my webspace: http://home.vrweb.de/internetzel/miboot.image Please report the results. Tobias P.S.: You're right, I'm German. Is German funny? >new kernel, new error, my pb1400 keeps turning off in the middle off usage , >I could be using it 5 minutes or 5 hrs in gnome with the 2.4.30 gcc kernel\ > >Vito > >----- Original Message ---- >From: Florian Boelstler <eup...@ar...> >To: nub...@li... >Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:51:42 PM >Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches > >Hi Vito, > >Vito wrote: > > >>Thanks for the info and warning. But is linux nubus sarge charging the battery even if it does not show it? >> >> > >>From my semi-electro-technical knowledge, I guess that the OS is not >related to whether your battery is charged at all. > >Further if you leave your PB turned off it will definitely keep charging >the battery. You can even feel it ;) > >Cheers, > > Florian > >-- >Life's uncertain...eat dessert first... > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language >that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast >and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! >http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 >_______________________________________________ >Nubus-pmac-users mailing list >Nub...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language >that extends applications into web and mobile media. 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From: Guy P. <ga...@ri...> - 2006-02-24 02:20:15
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Vito, Check for a /mnt/floppy or similar. Also, /dev is a little odd on the install image; there wasn't a /dev/hda11 on my system when I ran it, but there was a /dev/ide. I had to do a "mount [floppy mount point] /dev/ide/lun0/device0/part11" or something like that; I'm not entirely sure. Try cd-ing and ls-ing in /dev, and look for an "ide" folder, then cd into it and look for something similar to what I've described. If you are successful, you should be able to find a folder with files named "discs part1 part2 part3 ... part12" in it; that is a folder representing your partition table. "discs" is all of the partitions together, as near as I can figure. "part1" is partition 1, and so on. You'll be mounting the part11 file to /floppy or /mnt/floppy or /cdrom or /mnt/cdrom (I really wish I could remember). Look around for a path like that. --Guy -----Original Message----- From: nub...@li... [mailto:nub...@li...] On Behalf Of Vito Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 7:38 PM To: nub...@li... Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Ok this is a great suggestion , but I need further assistance on this one (what else is new) I have no floppy I have an internal cdrom drive and mount presently on hda11 where the broken root and file system reside. My swap is at hda12. I don't really remember which drive partitions are the hfs - I think that they are probably hda5 and 6 or 6 and 7, with deb partitioning soft on hda8. I tried mount /dev/hda11/ /floppy but get mount: mounting /dev/hda11/ on /floppy failed no such directory error. Thx in advance for any help out there. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Guy Paddock <ga...@ri...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 3:06:55 PM Subject: RE: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Vito, I would boot into the Debian installer image, exit the setup to get to the shell, and do a mount of your partition to something like "/floppy" or another mount point that the installer image provides. The mount program in the debian installer image will automatically do a repair during the mount that will fix your partition. I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off during startup recovery too. I have found that the only work-around is to boot from the installer and run mount. --Guy -----Original Message----- From: nub...@li... [mailto:nub...@li...] On Behalf Of Vito Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 5:56 PM To: nub...@li... Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Thanks again. This install finally broke after having been shgutdown one too many times. Now what I get is the boot screen stuck at ext3-fs: INFO recovery required on readonly filesystem. by the way, I had installed the battery manager from debian for gmome and x , perhaps if I hadn't done this the pmu would not have acted up. I'll download the miboot.image to my work computer and home computer in the next day - so that if you need to erase it from the server , you may. and ext3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery... and ther it hangs. So I am in the market for a larger hard drive and I will probably wiat till I get it till I install again - which I hope is very soon. No, no I didn't mean to imply that there was anything funny about German except perhaps my very poor attempts at schiebing it or spraching it. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Tobias Netzel <tob...@t-...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 1:23:01 PM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Hi Vito, that problem is related to the PMU. The PMU is also the part that is responsible for battery charging. It is always working when any power supply is available. And it is indeed totally independant of any OS. The PMU controls the power to all other devices in the PowerBooks and will turn the system power off if the OS doesn't respond and react the way it expects it to do. I'm currently using a kernel with a PMU driver that I patched in order to prevent these power offs. I have had none so far in one week. I did not use it that often but quite a few hours. You can download the miboot kernel image from my webspace: http://home.vrweb.de/internetzel/miboot.image Please report the results. Tobias P.S.: You're right, I'm German. Is German funny? >new kernel, new error, my pb1400 keeps turning off in the middle off usage , >I could be using it 5 minutes or 5 hrs in gnome with the 2.4.30 gcc kernel\ > >Vito > >----- Original Message ---- >From: Florian Boelstler <eup...@ar...> >To: nub...@li... >Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:51:42 PM >Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches > >Hi Vito, > >Vito wrote: > > >>Thanks for the info and warning. But is linux nubus sarge charging the battery even if it does not show it? >> >> > >>From my semi-electro-technical knowledge, I guess that the OS is not >related to whether your battery is charged at all. > >Further if you leave your PB turned off it will definitely keep charging >the battery. You can even feel it ;) > >Cheers, > > Florian > >-- >Life's uncertain...eat dessert first... > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language >that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast >and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! >http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 >_______________________________________________ >Nubus-pmac-users mailing list >Nub...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language >that extends applications into web and mobile media. 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From: Vito <v_...@ya...> - 2006-02-28 00:44:05
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Tobias : using the ext2 kernel option causes the error - ext2-fs ide0(3,11)couln't mount because of unsupported optional features (4000000) kernel panic: VFS : Unable to mount root fs blah blah blah Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Tobias Netzel <tob...@t-...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:50:44 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches I also had the boot process being stuck at ext3fs recovery a few times but after a restart the system booted fine. I never needed to repair the partition manually. But there might be an easier way of repairing the partition. Add "rootfstype=ext2" to the kernel argument line (be careful not to exceed the maximum kernel argument line length of miboot - you would then overwrite the root device option). The partition should then be mounted with the ext2 file system instead of the ext3 file system. That is no problem because ext3 is backwards compatible. And as ext2 doesn't do any recovery on mounting the system might boot as usual. One should then start fsck manually if it isn't started automatically. Tobias Am 24.02.2006 um 11:51 schrieb Florian Boelstler: > > > Guy Paddock wrote: >> I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off during startup >> recovery too. I have found that the only work-around is to boot from >> the >> installer and run mount. > > I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the installer > components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are loaded) and > then switch to a shell. > > Then I manually invoke the repair process: > fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/... > ^^ > To be replaced by your root partition. > > Good luck, > > Florian > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting > language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live > webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding > territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel? > cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > Nub...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nub...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users |
From: Vito <v_...@ya...> - 2006-02-24 00:01:42
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Wow this is fantastic news. I really dread doing another install until I get a larger hard disk. Thanks; I may need to get back with you on the specific steps you listed if I can't figure it out properly. Vito --- Guy Paddock <ga...@ri...> wrote: > Vito, > > I would boot into the Debian installer image, exit > the setup to get to the > shell, and do a mount of your partition to something > like "/floppy" or > another mount point that the installer image > provides. The mount program in > the debian installer image will automatically do a > repair during the mount > that will fix your partition. > > I had the problem of it either hanging or > powering-off during startup > recovery too. I have found that the only work-around > is to boot from the > installer and run mount. > > --Guy > > -----Original Message----- > From: nub...@li... > [mailto:nub...@li...] > On Behalf Of Vito > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 5:56 PM > To: nub...@li... > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + > MediaBay hotplug patches > > Thanks again. This install finally broke after > having been shgutdown one too > many times. Now what I get is the boot screen stuck > at ext3-fs: INFO > recovery required on readonly filesystem. by the > way, I had installed the > battery manager from debian for gmome and x , > perhaps if I hadn't done this > the pmu would not have acted up. I'll download the > miboot.image to my work > computer and home computer in the next day - so that > if you need to erase it > from the server , you may. > and > ext3-fs: write access will be enabled during > recovery... and ther it hangs. > So I am in the market for a larger hard drive and I > will probably wiat till > I get it till I install again - which I hope is very > soon. > > No, no I didn't mean to imply that there was > anything funny about German > except perhaps my very poor attempts at schiebing it > or spraching it. > > Vito > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Tobias Netzel <tob...@t-...> > To: nub...@li... > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 1:23:01 PM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + > MediaBay hotplug patches > > Hi Vito, > > that problem is related to the PMU. > The PMU is also the part that is responsible for > battery charging. > It is always working when any power supply is > available. And it is > indeed totally independant of any OS. > The PMU controls the power to all other devices in > the PowerBooks and > will turn the system power off if the OS doesn't > respond and react the > way it expects it to do. > > I'm currently using a kernel with a PMU driver that > I patched in order > to prevent these power offs. I have had none so far > in one week. I did > not use it that often but quite a few hours. > > You can download the miboot kernel image from my > webspace: > > http://home.vrweb.de/internetzel/miboot.image > > Please report the results. > > Tobias > > P.S.: You're right, I'm German. Is German funny? > > > >new kernel, new error, my pb1400 keeps turning off > in the middle off usage > , > >I could be using it 5 minutes or 5 hrs in gnome > with the 2.4.30 gcc kernel\ > > > >Vito > > > >----- Original Message ---- > >From: Florian Boelstler <eup...@ar...> > >To: nub...@li... > >Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:51:42 PM > >Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + > MediaBay hotplug > patches > > > >Hi Vito, > > > >Vito wrote: > > > > > >>Thanks for the info and warning. But is linux > nubus sarge charging the > battery even if it does not show it? > >> > >> > > > >>From my semi-electro-technical knowledge, I guess > that the OS is not > >related to whether your battery is charged at all. > > > >Further if you leave your PB turned off it will > definitely keep charging > >the battery. You can even feel it ;) > > > >Cheers, > > > > Florian > > > >-- > >Life's uncertain...eat dessert first... > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- > >This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a > groundbreaking scripting language > >that extends applications into web and mobile > media. Attend the live > webcast > >and join the prime developer group breaking into > this new coding territory! > >http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > >_______________________________________________ > >Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > >Nub...@li... > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > > > > > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- > >This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a > groundbreaking scripting language > >that extends applications into web and mobile > media. 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From: Vito <v_...@ya...> - 2006-02-24 00:37:38
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Ok this is a great suggestion , but I need further assistance on this one (what else is new) I have no floppy I have an internal cdrom drive and mount presently on hda11 where the broken root and file system reside. My swap is at hda12. I don't really remember which drive partitions are the hfs - I think that they are probably hda5 and 6 or 6 and 7, with deb partitioning soft on hda8. I tried mount /dev/hda11/ /floppy but get mount: mounting /dev/hda11/ on /floppy failed no such directory error. Thx in advance for any help out there. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Guy Paddock <ga...@ri...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 3:06:55 PM Subject: RE: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Vito, I would boot into the Debian installer image, exit the setup to get to the shell, and do a mount of your partition to something like "/floppy" or another mount point that the installer image provides. The mount program in the debian installer image will automatically do a repair during the mount that will fix your partition. I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off during startup recovery too. I have found that the only work-around is to boot from the installer and run mount. --Guy -----Original Message----- From: nub...@li... [mailto:nub...@li...] On Behalf Of Vito Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 5:56 PM To: nub...@li... Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Thanks again. This install finally broke after having been shgutdown one too many times. Now what I get is the boot screen stuck at ext3-fs: INFO recovery required on readonly filesystem. by the way, I had installed the battery manager from debian for gmome and x , perhaps if I hadn't done this the pmu would not have acted up. I'll download the miboot.image to my work computer and home computer in the next day - so that if you need to erase it from the server , you may. and ext3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery... and ther it hangs. So I am in the market for a larger hard drive and I will probably wiat till I get it till I install again - which I hope is very soon. No, no I didn't mean to imply that there was anything funny about German except perhaps my very poor attempts at schiebing it or spraching it. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Tobias Netzel <tob...@t-...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 1:23:01 PM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Hi Vito, that problem is related to the PMU. The PMU is also the part that is responsible for battery charging. It is always working when any power supply is available. And it is indeed totally independant of any OS. The PMU controls the power to all other devices in the PowerBooks and will turn the system power off if the OS doesn't respond and react the way it expects it to do. I'm currently using a kernel with a PMU driver that I patched in order to prevent these power offs. I have had none so far in one week. I did not use it that often but quite a few hours. You can download the miboot kernel image from my webspace: http://home.vrweb.de/internetzel/miboot.image Please report the results. Tobias P.S.: You're right, I'm German. Is German funny? >new kernel, new error, my pb1400 keeps turning off in the middle off usage , >I could be using it 5 minutes or 5 hrs in gnome with the 2.4.30 gcc kernel\ > >Vito > >----- Original Message ---- >From: Florian Boelstler <eup...@ar...> >To: nub...@li... >Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:51:42 PM >Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches > >Hi Vito, > >Vito wrote: > > >>Thanks for the info and warning. But is linux nubus sarge charging the battery even if it does not show it? >> >> > >>From my semi-electro-technical knowledge, I guess that the OS is not >related to whether your battery is charged at all. > >Further if you leave your PB turned off it will definitely keep charging >the battery. You can even feel it ;) > >Cheers, > > Florian > >-- >Life's uncertain...eat dessert first... > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language >that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast >and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! >http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 >_______________________________________________ >Nubus-pmac-users mailing list >Nub...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language >that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast >and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! >http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 >_______________________________________________ >Nubus-pmac-users mailing list >Nub...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. 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From: Florian B. <eup...@ar...> - 2006-02-24 10:54:48
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Guy Paddock wrote: > I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off during startup > recovery too. I have found that the only work-around is to boot from the > installer and run mount. I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the installer components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are loaded) and then switch to a shell. Then I manually invoke the repair process: fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/... ^^ To be replaced by your root partition. Good luck, Florian |
From: Tobias N. <tob...@t-...> - 2006-02-24 17:51:01
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I also had the boot process being stuck at ext3fs recovery a few times but after a restart the system booted fine. I never needed to repair the partition manually. But there might be an easier way of repairing the partition. Add "rootfstype=ext2" to the kernel argument line (be careful not to exceed the maximum kernel argument line length of miboot - you would then overwrite the root device option). The partition should then be mounted with the ext2 file system instead of the ext3 file system. That is no problem because ext3 is backwards compatible. And as ext2 doesn't do any recovery on mounting the system might boot as usual. One should then start fsck manually if it isn't started automatically. Tobias Am 24.02.2006 um 11:51 schrieb Florian Boelstler: > > > Guy Paddock wrote: >> I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off during startup >> recovery too. I have found that the only work-around is to boot from >> the >> installer and run mount. > > I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the installer > components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are loaded) and > then switch to a shell. > > Then I manually invoke the repair process: > fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/... > ^^ > To be replaced by your root partition. > > Good luck, > > Florian > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting > language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live > webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding > territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel? > cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > Nub...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > |
From: Vito <v_...@ya...> - 2006-02-24 17:56:53
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thx again ----- Original Message ---- From: Florian Boelstler <eup...@ar...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:51:56 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Guy Paddock wrote: > I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off during startup > recovery too. I have found that the only work-around is to boot from the > installer and run mount. I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the installer components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are loaded) and then switch to a shell. Then I manually invoke the repair process: fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/... ^^ To be replaced by your root partition. Good luck, Florian ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nub...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users |
From: Vito <v_...@ya...> - 2006-02-27 23:59:11
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Dear Friends: Got ye ol powerbook 1400c up an running with sarge again as per your suggestions. However, I am a little discouraged to say that the pmu trouble continues. I was using the laptop trying to set up network printing as a test and it powered off. I'm also using a pcmcia toshiba hard drive which may have caused the problem. As it is not nessesary for running linux I'll try again without it. I find it convenient for mac os9.2. My other device is a 3com ethernet card. So far I have not experienced any pmu problems while running the Orinoco wireless card. Then there is the factor of the battery. Maybe if I run linux without the battery in the bay the problems may stop. I can put it in when turning off the computer as a cmos backup. I have been using the patched pmu image but plan to reinstall it. Also, my synaptic package archive seems to be messed up as it is unable to install printer drivers from the sarge cd that it asked for and has error messages that come up. Later this week I expect to receive a larger hard drive that I will install, and at that time reinstall linux as well. Any suggestions on a partitioning scheme? I have read that it is good to have the root system on one partitition and all other files on another, while having yet another for swap. Lately I've just been putting the install on one partition and accompanied by one swap. Thx, Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Vito <v_...@ya...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:56:43 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches thx again ----- Original Message ---- From: Florian Boelstler <eup...@ar...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:51:56 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Guy Paddock wrote: > I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off during startup > recovery too. I have found that the only work-around is to boot from the > installer and run mount. I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the installer components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are loaded) and then switch to a shell. Then I manually invoke the repair process: fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/... ^^ To be replaced by your root partition. Good luck, Florian ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nub...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nub...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users |
From: Vito <v_...@ya...> - 2006-02-28 17:11:42
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Has anyone out there gotten knoppix, Suse or Ubuntu working on the nubus machines with the current miboot image that tobias, Daniel, Florian and others have worked on? For those of us less savy in the linux world - those distributions are appealing, as they leave some things less to chance (the chance of someone like me breaking the system) while providing a great selection of programs, with autodetect and automount already in place. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Vito <v_...@ya...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:56:43 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches thx again ----- Original Message ---- From: Florian Boelstler <eup...@ar...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:51:56 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Guy Paddock wrote: > I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off during startup > recovery too. I have found that the only work-around is to boot from the > installer and run mount. I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the installer components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are loaded) and then switch to a shell. Then I manually invoke the repair process: fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/... ^^ To be replaced by your root partition. Good luck, Florian ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nub...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nub...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users |
From: icedtrip <li...@ic...> - 2006-02-28 19:00:50
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I have not tried it myself, but wouldn't you need a method of getting into the particular distro's installer? Maybe this is my lack of knowledge coming back into all of this, but the most recent offerings of miboot only has the ability to boot into a Sarge Installer. Wouldn't you need an equivalent to that for any distro you are looking on installing? On another happy note, I used the miboot iso for the first time over the weekend on my 1400c (with Sonnet 400Mhz G3) and was able to get Debian back on my machine. I upgraded the harddrive using a Fujitsu 12GB drive from a dead Sony Vaio, just purchased a Teac 8x writable drive off ebay for $10, got everything upgraded to Sid, and got xorg up and running with Blackbox a= s my WM. Now, if only the resolution were a little higher. Uggh! icedtrip On 2/28/06, Vito <v_...@ya...> wrote: > > Has anyone out there gotten knoppix, Suse or Ubuntu working on the nubus > machines with the current miboot image that tobias, Daniel, Florian and > others have worked on? For those of us less savy in the linux world - tho= se > distributions are appealing, as they leave some things less to chance (th= e > chance of someone like me breaking the system) while providing a great > selection of programs, with autodetect and automount already in place. > > Vito > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Vito <v_...@ya...> > To: nub...@li... > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:56:43 AM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug > patches > > thx again > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Florian Boelstler <eup...@ar...> > To: nub...@li... > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:51:56 AM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug > patches > > > > Guy Paddock wrote: > > I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off during startup > > recovery too. I have found that the only work-around is to boot from th= e > > installer and run mount. > > I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the installer > components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are loaded) and > then switch to a shell. > > Then I manually invoke the repair process: > fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/... > ^^ > To be replaced by your root partition. > > Good luck, > > Florian > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting > language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live > webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding > territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=3Dlnk&kid=3D110944&bid=3D241720&dat= =3D121642 > _______________________________________________ > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > Nub...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting > language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live > webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding > territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=3Dlnk&kid=3D110944&bid=3D241720&dat= =3D121642 > _______________________________________________ > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > Nub...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting > language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live > webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding > territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=3Dlnk&kid=3D110944&bid=3D241720&dat= =3D121642 > _______________________________________________ > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > Nub...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > |
From: Vito <v_...@ya...> - 2006-02-28 19:12:26
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I tried this by coping over the installer from Ubuntu and renaming it the same as the miboot file - however I think that ubuntu is too lrg of an installer at 4.7mb as compared with the sarge file at 2.?mb. One thing that ubuntu's installer cd or installer file did for me before failing however was to mount and repair my damaged sarge ext3 file system which was damaged from my pb1400c pmu problems whereby the system shutsoff in the middle of doing stuff. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: icedtrip <li...@ic...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:53:30 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches I have not tried it myself, but wouldn't you need a method of getting into the particular distro's installer? Maybe this is my lack of knowledge coming back into all of this, but the most recent offerings of miboot only has the ability to boot into a Sarge Installer. Wouldn't you need an equivalent to that for any distro you are looking on installing? On another happy note, I used the miboot iso for the first time over the weekend on my 1400c (with Sonnet 400Mhz G3) and was able to get Debian back on my machine. I upgraded the harddrive using a Fujitsu 12GB drive from a dead Sony Vaio, just purchased a Teac 8x writable drive off ebay for $10, got everything upgraded to Sid, and got xorg up and running with Blackbox as my WM. Now, if only the resolution were a little higher. Uggh! icedtrip On 2/28/06, Vito <v_...@ya...> wrote: Has anyone out there gotten knoppix, Suse or Ubuntu working on the nubus machines with the current miboot image that tobias, Daniel, Florian and others have worked on? For those of us less savy in the linux world - those distributions are appealing, as they leave some things less to chance (the chance of someone like me breaking the system) while providing a great selection of programs, with autodetect and automount already in place. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Vito <v_...@ya...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:56:43 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches thx again ----- Original Message ---- From: Florian Boelstler < eup...@ar...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:51:56 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Guy Paddock wrote: > I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off during startup > recovery too. I have found that the only work-around is to boot from the > installer and run mount. I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the installer components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are loaded) and then switch to a shell. Then I manually invoke the repair process: fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/... ^^ To be replaced by your root partition. Good luck, Florian ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nub...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nub...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nub...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users |
From: Vito <v_...@ya...> - 2006-02-28 19:44:06
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By the way I suspect that the pmu problems are coming from the old nemisis of nubus macs when encountering linux: the power management of the nubus slots. Tobias has made a lot of strides in taking on this problem, but alas it still exists. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Vito <v_...@ya...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:12:19 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches <!-- DIV {margin:0px} -->I tried this by coping over the installer from Ubuntu and renaming it the same as the miboot file - however I think that ubuntu is too lrg of an installer at 4.7mb as compared with the sarge file at 2.?mb. One thing that ubuntu's installer cd or installer file did for me before failing however was to mount and repair my damaged sarge ext3 file system which was damaged from my pb1400c pmu problems whereby the system shutsoff in the middle of doing stuff. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: icedtrip <li...@ic...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:53:30 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches I have not tried it myself, but wouldn't you need a method of getting into the particular distro's installer? Maybe this is my lack of knowledge coming back into all of this, but the most recent offerings of miboot only has the ability to boot into a Sarge Installer. Wouldn't you need an equivalent to that for any distro you are looking on installing? On another happy note, I used the miboot iso for the first time over the weekend on my 1400c (with Sonnet 400Mhz G3) and was able to get Debian back on my machine. I upgraded the harddrive using a Fujitsu 12GB drive from a dead Sony Vaio, just purchased a Teac 8x writable drive off ebay for $10, got everything upgraded to Sid, and got xorg up and running with Blackbox as my WM. Now, if only the resolution were a little higher. Uggh! icedtrip On 2/28/06, Vito <v_...@ya...> wrote: Has anyone out there gotten knoppix, Suse or Ubuntu working on the nubus machines with the current miboot image that tobias, Daniel, Florian and others have worked on? For those of us less savy in the linux world - those distributions are appealing, as they leave some things less to chance (the chance of someone like me breaking the system) while providing a great selection of programs, with autodetect and automount already in place. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Vito <v_...@ya...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:56:43 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches thx again ----- Original Message ---- From: Florian Boelstler < eup...@ar...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:51:56 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Guy Paddock wrote: > I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off during startup > recovery too. I have found that the only work-around is to boot from the > installer and run mount. I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the installer components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are loaded) and then switch to a shell. Then I manually invoke the repair process: fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/... ^^ To be replaced by your root partition. Good luck, Florian ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nub...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nub...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nub...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users |
From: icedtrip <li...@ic...> - 2006-02-28 20:04:57
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I saw this issue a little bit over the weekend while experementing with a few things. I had 2 issues. One part, the installer, boot kernel, what not, would always freeze at the "exit:MMU" part; and a few times, I would b= e working/playing and the machine would cut off without warning. I reset the PRAM several times to ensure everything was cleared up, and my problems wen= t away. I haven't had any of these issues since, but then again, it has only been a few days. icedtrip On 2/28/06, Vito <v_...@ya...> wrote: > > By the way I suspect that the pmu problems are coming from the old nemisi= s > of nubus macs when encountering linux: the power management of the nubus > slots. Tobias has made a lot of strides in taking on this problem, but al= as > it still exists. > > Vito > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Vito <v_...@ya...> > To: nub...@li... > Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:12:19 AM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug > patches > > I tried this by coping over the installer from Ubuntu and renaming it the > same as the miboot file - however I think that ubuntu is too lrg of an > installer at 4.7mb as compared with the sarge file at 2.?mb. > > One thing that ubuntu's installer cd or installer file did for me before > failing however was to mount and repair my damaged sarge ext3 file system > which was damaged from my pb1400c pmu problems whereby the system shutsof= f > in the middle of doing stuff. > > Vito > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: icedtrip <li...@ic...> > To: nub...@li... > Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:53:30 AM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug > patches > > I have not tried it myself, but wouldn't you need a method of getting int= o > the particular distro's installer? Maybe this is my lack of knowledge > coming back into all of this, but the most recent offerings of miboot onl= y > has the ability to boot into a Sarge Installer. Wouldn't you need an > equivalent to that for any distro you are looking on installing? > > On another happy note, I used the miboot iso for the first time over the > weekend on my 1400c (with Sonnet 400Mhz G3) and was able to get Debian ba= ck > on my machine. I upgraded the harddrive using a Fujitsu 12GB drive from = a > dead Sony Vaio, just purchased a Teac 8x writable drive off ebay for $10, > got everything upgraded to Sid, and got xorg up and running with Blackbox= as > my WM. Now, if only the resolution were a little higher. Uggh! > > icedtrip > > On 2/28/06, Vito <v_...@ya...> wrote: > > > > Has anyone out there gotten knoppix, Suse or Ubuntu working on the nubu= s > > machines with the current miboot image that tobias, Daniel, Florian and > > others have worked on? For those of us less savy in the linux world - t= hose > > distributions are appealing, as they leave some things less to chance (= the > > chance of someone like me breaking the system) while providing a great > > selection of programs, with autodetect and automount already in place. > > > > Vito > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Vito <v_...@ya...> > > To: nub...@li... > > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:56:43 AM > > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug > > patches > > > > thx again > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Florian Boelstler < eup...@ar...> > > To: nub...@li... > > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:51:56 AM > > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug > > patches > > > > > > > > Guy Paddock wrote: > > > I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off during startup > > > recovery too. I have found that the only work-around is to boot from > > the > > > installer and run mount. > > > > I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the installer > > components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are loaded) and > > then switch to a shell. > > > > Then I manually invoke the repair process: > > fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/... > > ^^ > > To be replaced by your root partition. > > > > Good luck, > > > > Florian > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting > > language > > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live > > webcast > > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding > > territory! > > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=3Dlnk&kid=3D110944&bid=3D241720&dat= =3D121642 > > _______________________________________________ > > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > > Nub...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting > > language > > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live > > webcast > > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding > > territory! > > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=3Dlnk&kid=3D110944&bid=3D241720&dat= =3D121642 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > > Nub...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting > > language > > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live > > webcast > > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding > > territory! > > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=3Dlnk&kid=3D110944&bid=3D241720&dat= =3D121642 > > _______________________________________________ > > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > > Nub...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > > > > |
From: Vito <v_...@ya...> - 2006-02-28 21:31:26
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Most of the time as per Tobias and others, the exitMMU will cease to be a problem if you eject the pcmcia or nubus cards while booting, or ejct and reinsert. The other problem for me is recurring unfortunately. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: icedtrip <li...@ic...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:04:50 PM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches I saw this issue a little bit over the weekend while experementing with a few things. I had 2 issues. One part, the installer, boot kernel, what not, would always freeze at the "exit:MMU" part; and a few times, I would be working/playing and the machine would cut off without warning. I reset the PRAM several times to ensure everything was cleared up, and my problems went away. I haven't had any of these issues since, but then again, it has only been a few days. icedtrip On 2/28/06, Vito <v_...@ya...> wrote: By the way I suspect that the pmu problems are coming from the old nemisis of nubus macs when encountering linux: the power management of the nubus slots. Tobias has made a lot of strides in taking on this problem, but alas it still exists. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Vito <v_...@ya...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:12:19 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches I tried this by coping over the installer from Ubuntu and renaming it the same as the miboot file - however I think that ubuntu is too lrg of an installer at 4.7mb as compared with the sarge file at 2.?mb. One thing that ubuntu's installer cd or installer file did for me before failing however was to mount and repair my damaged sarge ext3 file system which was damaged from my pb1400c pmu problems whereby the system shutsoff in the middle of doing stuff. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: icedtrip <li...@ic...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:53:30 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches I have not tried it myself, but wouldn't you need a method of getting into the particular distro's installer? Maybe this is my lack of knowledge coming back into all of this, but the most recent offerings of miboot only has the ability to boot into a Sarge Installer. Wouldn't you need an equivalent to that for any distro you are looking on installing? On another happy note, I used the miboot iso for the first time over the weekend on my 1400c (with Sonnet 400Mhz G3) and was able to get Debian back on my machine. I upgraded the harddrive using a Fujitsu 12GB drive from a dead Sony Vaio, just purchased a Teac 8x writable drive off ebay for $10, got everything upgraded to Sid, and got xorg up and running with Blackbox as my WM. Now, if only the resolution were a little higher. Uggh! icedtrip On 2/28/06, Vito <v_...@ya... > wrote: Has anyone out there gotten knoppix, Suse or Ubuntu working on the nubus machines with the current miboot image that tobias, Daniel, Florian and others have worked on? For those of us less savy in the linux world - those distributions are appealing, as they leave some things less to chance (the chance of someone like me breaking the system) while providing a great selection of programs, with autodetect and automount already in place. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Vito <v_...@ya...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:56:43 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches thx again ----- Original Message ---- From: Florian Boelstler < eup...@ar...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:51:56 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Guy Paddock wrote: > I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off during startup > recovery too. I have found that the only work-around is to boot from the > installer and run mount. I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the installer components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are loaded) and then switch to a shell. Then I manually invoke the repair process: fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/... ^^ To be replaced by your root partition. 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From: <tob...@t-...> - 2006-02-28 22:03:47
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Do you mean that when a PCMCIA card is inserted the kernel hangs after exitMMU ? This would be a new problem to me. Von: Vito <v_...@ya...> Antworten an: nub...@li... Datum: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:31:19 -0800 (PST) An: nub...@li... Betreff: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Most of the time as per Tobias and others, the exitMMU will cease to be a problem if you eject the pcmcia or nubus cards while booting, or ejct and reinsert. The other problem for me is recurring unfortunately. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: icedtrip <li...@ic...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:04:50 PM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches I saw this issue a little bit over the weekend while experementing with a few things. I had 2 issues. One part, the installer, boot kernel, what not, would always freeze at the "exit:MMU" part; and a few times, I would be working/playing and the machine would cut off without warning. I reset the PRAM several times to ensure everything was cleared up, and my problems went away. I haven't had any of these issues since, but then again, it has only been a few days. icedtrip On 2/28/06, Vito <v_...@ya...> wrote: By the way I suspect that the pmu problems are coming from the old nemisis of nubus macs when encountering linux: the power management of the nubus slots. Tobias has made a lot of strides in taking on this problem, but alas it still exists. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Vito <v_...@ya...> To: nub...@li... <mailto:nub...@li...> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:12:19 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches I tried this by coping over the installer from Ubuntu and renaming it the same as the miboot file - however I think that ubuntu is too lrg of an installer at 4.7mb as compared with the sarge file at 2.?mb. One thing that ubuntu's installer cd or installer file did for me before failing however was to mount and repair my damaged sarge ext3 file system which was damaged from my pb1400c pmu problems whereby the system shutsoff in the middle of doing stuff. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: icedtrip <li...@ic...> To: nub...@li... <mailto:nub...@li...> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:53:30 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches I have not tried it myself, but wouldn't you need a method of getting into the particular distro's installer? Maybe this is my lack of knowledge coming back into all of this, but the most recent offerings of miboot only has the ability to boot into a Sarge Installer. Wouldn't you need an equivalent to that for any distro you are looking on installing? On another happy note, I used the miboot iso for the first time over the weekend on my 1400c (with Sonnet 400Mhz G3) and was able to get Debian back on my machine. I upgraded the harddrive using a Fujitsu 12GB drive from a dead Sony Vaio, just purchased a Teac 8x writable drive off ebay for $10, got everything upgraded to Sid, and got xorg up and running with Blackbox as my WM. Now, if only the resolution were a little higher. Uggh! icedtrip On 2/28/06, Vito <v_...@ya... <mailto:v_...@ya...> > wrote: Has anyone out there gotten knoppix, Suse or Ubuntu working on the nubus machines with the current miboot image that tobias, Daniel, Florian and others have worked on? For those of us less savy in the linux world - those distributions are appealing, as they leave some things less to chance (the chance of someone like me breaking the system) while providing a great selection of programs, with autodetect and automount already in place. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Vito <v_...@ya...> To: nub...@li... <mailto:nub...@li...> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:56:43 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches thx again ----- Original Message ---- From: Florian Boelstler < eup...@ar... <mailto:eup...@ar...> > To: nub...@li... <mailto:nub...@li...> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:51:56 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Guy Paddock wrote: > I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off during startup > recovery too. I have found that the only work-around is to boot from the > installer and run mount. I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the installer components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are loaded) and then switch to a shell. Then I manually invoke the repair process: fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/... ^^ To be replaced by your root partition. 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From: Vito <v_...@ya...> - 2006-02-28 23:17:19
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no my recurring problem is not in the pcmcia at boot where ice trip has described having a problem, but when running linux all of a sudden linux shuts down and now the file system is broken again. I will reinstall in a couple of days. the kernel option to repair or skip repair at boot only ends up freezing with an error. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Tobias Netzel <tob...@t-...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 2:03:30 PM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Do you mean that when a PCMCIA card is inserted the kernel hangs after exitMMU ? This would be a new problem to me. Von: Vito <v_...@ya...> Antworten an: nub...@li... Datum: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:31:19 -0800 (PST) An: nub...@li... Betreff: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Most of the time as per Tobias and others, the exitMMU will cease to be a problem if you eject the pcmcia or nubus cards while booting, or ejct and reinsert. The other problem for me is recurring unfortunately. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: icedtrip <li...@ic...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:04:50 PM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches I saw this issue a little bit over the weekend while experementing with a few things. I had 2 issues. One part, the installer, boot kernel, what not, would always freeze at the "exit:MMU" part; and a few times, I would be working/playing and the machine would cut off without warning. I reset the PRAM several times to ensure everything was cleared up, and my problems went away. I haven't had any of these issues since, but then again, it has only been a few days. icedtrip On 2/28/06, Vito <v_...@ya...> wrote: By the way I suspect that the pmu problems are coming from the old nemisis of nubus macs when encountering linux: the power management of the nubus slots. Tobias has made a lot of strides in taking on this problem, but alas it still exists. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Vito <v_...@ya...> To: nub...@li... <mailto:nub...@li...> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:12:19 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches I tried this by coping over the installer from Ubuntu and renaming it the same as the miboot file - however I think that ubuntu is too lrg of an installer at 4.7mb as compared with the sarge file at 2.?mb. One thing that ubuntu's installer cd or installer file did for me before failing however was to mount and repair my damaged sarge ext3 file system which was damaged from my pb1400c pmu problems whereby the system shutsoff in the middle of doing stuff. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: icedtrip <li...@ic...> To: nub...@li... <mailto:nub...@li...> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:53:30 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches I have not tried it myself, but wouldn't you need a method of getting into the particular distro's installer? Maybe this is my lack of knowledge coming back into all of this, but the most recent offerings of miboot only has the ability to boot into a Sarge Installer. Wouldn't you need an equivalent to that for any distro you are looking on installing? On another happy note, I used the miboot iso for the first time over the weekend on my 1400c (with Sonnet 400Mhz G3) and was able to get Debian back on my machine. I upgraded the harddrive using a Fujitsu 12GB drive from a dead Sony Vaio, just purchased a Teac 8x writable drive off ebay for $10, got everything upgraded to Sid, and got xorg up and running with Blackbox as my WM. Now, if only the resolution were a little higher. Uggh! icedtrip On 2/28/06, Vito <v_...@ya... <mailto:v_...@ya...> > wrote: Has anyone out there gotten knoppix, Suse or Ubuntu working on the nubus machines with the current miboot image that tobias, Daniel, Florian and others have worked on? For those of us less savy in the linux world - those distributions are appealing, as they leave some things less to chance (the chance of someone like me breaking the system) while providing a great selection of programs, with autodetect and automount already in place. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Vito <v_...@ya...> To: nub...@li... <mailto:nub...@li...> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:56:43 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches thx again ----- Original Message ---- From: Florian Boelstler < eup...@ar... <mailto:eup...@ar...> > To: nub...@li... <mailto:nub...@li...> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:51:56 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Guy Paddock wrote: > I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off during startup > recovery too. I have found that the only work-around is to boot from the > installer and run mount. I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the installer components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are loaded) and then switch to a shell. Then I manually invoke the repair process: fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/... ^^ To be replaced by your root partition. 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From: icedtrip <li...@ic...> - 2006-02-28 23:57:08
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Well, I had both of the problems. One was during boot, when it would freeze. This has been resolved, but the other issue I believe is the same as yours. During normal operation (installing apps, surfing the net, etc), the system suddenly shuts down (and I mean turns off, not goes through a shutdown routine). However, this has yet to actually break the file system for me. I can simply boot back up and continue working as if it never happened. Is this good for the system? No, but it hasn't actually corrupted anything that I can see, yet. icedtrip On 2/28/06, Vito <v_...@ya...> wrote: > > no my recurring problem is not in the pcmcia at boot where ice trip has > described having a problem, but when running linux all of a sudden linux > shuts down and now the file system is broken again. I will reinstall in a > couple of days. the kernel option to repair or skip repair at boot only e= nds > up freezing with an error. > > Vito > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Tobias Netzel <tob...@t-...> > To: nub...@li... > Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 2:03:30 PM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug > patches > > Do you mean that when a PCMCIA card is inserted the kernel hangs after > exitMMU ? > This would be a new problem to me. > > > > *Von: *Vito <v_...@ya...> > *Antworten an: *nub...@li... > *Datum: *Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:31:19 -0800 (PST) > *An: *nub...@li... > *Betreff: *Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug > patches > > > Most of the time as per Tobias and others, the exitMMU will cease to be a > problem if you eject the pcmcia or nubus cards while booting, or ejct and > reinsert. > > The other problem for me is recurring unfortunately. > Vito > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: icedtrip <li...@ic...> > To: nub...@li... > Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:04:50 PM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug > patches > > I saw this issue a little bit over the weekend while experementing with a > few things. I had 2 issues. One part, the installer, boot kernel, what > not, would always freeze at the "exit:MMU" part; and a few times, I would= be > working/playing and the machine would cut off without warning. I reset t= he > PRAM several times to ensure everything was cleared up, and my problems w= ent > away. I haven't had any of these issues since, but then again, it has on= ly > been a few days. > > icedtrip > > On 2/28/06, *Vito* <v_...@ya...> wrote: > > > By the way I suspect that the pmu problems are coming from the old nemisi= s > of nubus macs when encountering linux: the power management of the nubus > slots. Tobias has made a lot of strides in taking on this problem, but al= as > it still exists. > > Vito > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Vito <v_...@ya...> > To: nub...@li... <mailto: > nub...@li...> > Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:12:19 AM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug > patches > > I tried this by coping over the installer from Ubuntu and renaming it th= e > same as the miboot file - however I think that ubuntu is too lrg of an > installer at 4.7mb as compared with the sarge file at 2.?mb. > > One thing that ubuntu's installer cd or installer file did for me before > failing however was to mount and repair my damaged sarge ext3 file system > which was damaged from my pb1400c pmu problems whereby the system shutsof= f > in the middle of doing stuff. > > Vito > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: icedtrip <li...@ic...> > To: nub...@li... <mailto: > nub...@li...> > Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:53:30 AM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug > patches > > I have not tried it myself, but wouldn't you need a method of getting int= o > the particular distro's installer? Maybe this is my lack of knowledge > coming back into all of this, but the most recent offerings of miboot onl= y > has the ability to boot into a Sarge Installer. Wouldn't you need an > equivalent to that for any distro you are looking on installing? > > On another happy note, I used the miboot iso for the first time over the > weekend on my 1400c (with Sonnet 400Mhz G3) and was able to get Debian ba= ck > on my machine. I upgraded the harddrive using a Fujitsu 12GB drive from = a > dead Sony Vaio, just purchased a Teac 8x writable drive off ebay for $10, > got everything upgraded to Sid, and got xorg up and running with Blackbox= as > my WM. Now, if only the resolution were a little higher. Uggh! > > icedtrip > > On 2/28/06, *Vito* <v_...@ya... <mailto:v_...@ya...> > wrote: > > Has anyone out there gotten knoppix, Suse or Ubuntu working on the nubus > machines with the current miboot image that tobias, Daniel, Florian and > others have worked on? For those of us less savy in the linux world - tho= se > distributions are appealing, as they leave some things less to chance (th= e > chance of someone like me breaking the system) while providing a great > selection of programs, with autodetect and automount already in place. > > Vito > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Vito <v_...@ya...> > To: nub...@li... <mailto: > nub...@li...> > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:56:43 AM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug > patches > > thx again > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Florian Boelstler < eup...@ar... <mailto:eup...@ar...> > > To: nub...@li... <mailto: > nub...@li...> > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:51:56 AM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug > patches > > > > Guy Paddock wrote: > > I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off during startup > > recovery too. I have found that the only work-around is to boot from th= e > > > installer and run mount. > > I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the installer > components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are loaded) and > then switch to a shell. > > Then I manually invoke the repair process: > fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/... > ^^ > To be replaced by your root partition. > > Good luck, > > Florian > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting > language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. 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From: Vito <v_...@ya...> - 2006-03-01 00:05:58
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Ye sit ussually didn't break for me until the 4th or 5th time. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: icedtrip <li...@ic...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 3:50:34 PM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Well, I had both of the problems. One was during boot, when it would freeze. This has been resolved, but the other issue I believe is the same as yours. During normal operation (installing apps, surfing the net, etc), the system suddenly shuts down (and I mean turns off, not goes through a shutdown routine). However, this has yet to actually break the file system for me. I can simply boot back up and continue working as if it never happened. Is this good for the system? No, but it hasn't actually corrupted anything that I can see, yet. icedtrip On 2/28/06, Vito <v_...@ya...> wrote: no my recurring problem is not in the pcmcia at boot where ice trip has described having a problem, but when running linux all of a sudden linux shuts down and now the file system is broken again. I will reinstall in a couple of days. the kernel option to repair or skip repair at boot only ends up freezing with an error. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Tobias Netzel <tob...@t-... > To: nub...@li... Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 2:03:30 PM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Do you mean that when a PCMCIA card is inserted the kernel hangs after exitMMU ? This would be a new problem to me. Von: Vito < v_...@ya...> Antworten an: nub...@li... Datum: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:31:19 -0800 (PST) An: nub...@li... Betreff: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Most of the time as per Tobias and others, the exitMMU will cease to be a problem if you eject the pcmcia or nubus cards while booting, or ejct and reinsert. The other problem for me is recurring unfortunately. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: icedtrip < li...@ic...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:04:50 PM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches I saw this issue a little bit over the weekend while experementing with a few things. I had 2 issues. One part, the installer, boot kernel, what not, would always freeze at the "exit:MMU" part; and a few times, I would be working/playing and the machine would cut off without warning. I reset the PRAM several times to ensure everything was cleared up, and my problems went away. I haven't had any of these issues since, but then again, it has only been a few days. icedtrip On 2/28/06, Vito <v_...@ya...> wrote: By the way I suspect that the pmu problems are coming from the old nemisis of nubus macs when encountering linux: the power management of the nubus slots. Tobias has made a lot of strides in taking on this problem, but alas it still exists. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Vito <v_...@ya...> To: nub...@li... <mailto:nub...@li...> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:12:19 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches I tried this by coping over the installer from Ubuntu and renaming it the same as the miboot file - however I think that ubuntu is too lrg of an installer at 4.7mb as compared with the sarge file at 2.?mb. One thing that ubuntu's installer cd or installer file did for me before failing however was to mount and repair my damaged sarge ext3 file system which was damaged from my pb1400c pmu problems whereby the system shutsoff in the middle of doing stuff. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: icedtrip <li...@ic...> To: nub...@li... <mailto:nub...@li... > Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:53:30 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches I have not tried it myself, but wouldn't you need a method of getting into the particular distro's installer? Maybe this is my lack of knowledge coming back into all of this, but the most recent offerings of miboot only has the ability to boot into a Sarge Installer. Wouldn't you need an equivalent to that for any distro you are looking on installing? On another happy note, I used the miboot iso for the first time over the weekend on my 1400c (with Sonnet 400Mhz G3) and was able to get Debian back on my machine. I upgraded the harddrive using a Fujitsu 12GB drive from a dead Sony Vaio, just purchased a Teac 8x writable drive off ebay for $10, got everything upgraded to Sid, and got xorg up and running with Blackbox as my WM. Now, if only the resolution were a little higher. Uggh! icedtrip On 2/28/06, Vito <v_...@ya... <mailto: v_...@ya...> > wrote: Has anyone out there gotten knoppix, Suse or Ubuntu working on the nubus machines with the current miboot image that tobias, Daniel, Florian and others have worked on? For those of us less savy in the linux world - those distributions are appealing, as they leave some things less to chance (the chance of someone like me breaking the system) while providing a great selection of programs, with autodetect and automount already in place. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Vito <v_...@ya...> To: nub...@li... <mailto:nub...@li... > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:56:43 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches thx again ----- Original Message ---- From: Florian Boelstler < eup...@ar... <mailto: eup...@ar...> > To: nub...@li... <mailto: nub...@li...> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:51:56 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Guy Paddock wrote: > I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off during startup > recovery too. I have found that the only work-around is to boot from the > installer and run mount. I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the installer components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are loaded) and then switch to a shell. Then I manually invoke the repair process: fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/... ^^ To be replaced by your root partition. 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From: Florian B. <eup...@ar...> - 2006-02-28 21:36:00
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Hi icedtrip and welcome back! :) icedtrip wrote: > I have not tried it myself, but wouldn't you need a method of getting > into the particular distro's installer? Maybe this is my lack of > knowledge coming back into all of this, but the most recent offerings of > miboot only has the ability to boot into a Sarge Installer. Wouldn't > you need an equivalent to that for any distro you are looking on > installing? You would need some sort of ramdisk image that is able to boot an installer. As long as your favorite distribution offers that (for 2.4.x kernels) it's just a matter of modifying miboot configuration. > On another happy note, I used the miboot iso for the first time over the > weekend on my 1400c (with Sonnet 400Mhz G3) and was able to get Debian > back on my machine. I upgraded the harddrive using a Fujitsu 12GB drive > from a dead Sony Vaio, just purchased a Teac 8x writable drive off ebay > for $10, got everything upgraded to Sid, and got xorg up and running > with Blackbox as my WM. Now, if only the resolution were a little > higher. Uggh! Congratulations! Cheers, Florian PS: Good to have you back in our small community! -- "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie |
From: Tobias N. <tob...@t-...> - 2006-02-28 20:11:28
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Hi Vito, you can only install distributions that support the 2.4 kernel. So knoppix will not work. As far as I know Suse does no longer support the PowerPC and I don't know where to get CD images from. On the mailing list was a report of a successful install of Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog). Tobias Am 28.02.2006 um 18:11 schrieb Vito: > Has anyone out there gotten knoppix, Suse or Ubuntu working on the > nubus machines with the current miboot image that tobias, Daniel, > Florian and others have worked on? For those of us less savy in the > linux world - those distributions are appealing, as they leave some > things less to chance (the chance of someone like me breaking the > system) while providing a great selection of programs, with autodetect > and automount already in place. > > Vito > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Vito <v_...@ya...> > To: nub...@li... > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:56:43 AM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug > patches > > thx again > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Florian Boelstler <eup...@ar...> > To: nub...@li... > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:51:56 AM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug > patches > > > > Guy Paddock wrote: >> I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off during startup >> recovery too. I have found that the only work-around is to boot from >> the >> installer and run mount. > > I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the installer > components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are loaded) and > then switch to a shell. > > Then I manually invoke the repair process: > fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/... > ^^ > To be replaced by your root partition. > > Good luck, > > Florian > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting > language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live > webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding > territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel? > cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > Nub...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting > language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live > webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding > territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel? > cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > Nub...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting > language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live > webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding > territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel? > cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > Nub...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > |
From: Vito <v_...@ya...> - 2006-02-28 21:26:55
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thx as always Tobias, Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Tobias Netzel <tob...@t-...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:11:10 PM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Hi Vito, you can only install distributions that support the 2.4 kernel. So knoppix will not work. As far as I know Suse does no longer support the PowerPC and I don't know where to get CD images from. On the mailing list was a report of a successful install of Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog). Tobias Am 28.02.2006 um 18:11 schrieb Vito: > Has anyone out there gotten knoppix, Suse or Ubuntu working on the > nubus machines with the current miboot image that tobias, Daniel, > Florian and others have worked on? For those of us less savy in the > linux world - those distributions are appealing, as they leave some > things less to chance (the chance of someone like me breaking the > system) while providing a great selection of programs, with autodetect > and automount already in place. > > Vito > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Vito <v_...@ya...> > To: nub...@li... > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:56:43 AM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug > patches > > thx again > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Florian Boelstler <eup...@ar...> > To: nub...@li... > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:51:56 AM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug > patches > > > > Guy Paddock wrote: >> I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off during startup >> recovery too. I have found that the only work-around is to boot from >> the >> installer and run mount. > > I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the installer > components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are loaded) and > then switch to a shell. > > Then I manually invoke the repair process: > fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/... > ^^ > To be replaced by your root partition. > > Good luck, > > Florian > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting > language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live > webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding > territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel? > cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > Nub...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting > language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live > webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding > territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel? > cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > Nub...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting > language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live > webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding > territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel? > cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > Nub...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > Hi Vito, you can only install distributions that support the 2.4 kernel. So knoppix will not work. As far as I know Suse does no longer support the PowerPC and I don't know where to get CD images from. On the mailing list was a report of a successful install of Ubuntu 4.10 (<x-tad-bigger>Warty Warthog). Tobias </x-tad-bigger> Am 28.02.2006 um 18:11 schrieb Vito: <excerpt>Has anyone out there gotten knoppix, Suse or Ubuntu working on the nubus machines with the current miboot image that tobias, Daniel, Florian and others have worked on? For those of us less savy in the linux world - those distributions are appealing, as they leave some things less to chance (the chance of someone like me breaking the system) while providing a great selection of programs, with autodetect and automount already in place. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Vito <<v_...@ya...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:56:43 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches thx again ----- Original Message ---- From: Florian Boelstler <<eup...@ar...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:51:56 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Guy Paddock wrote: <excerpt>I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off during startup recovery too. I have found that the only work-around is to boot from the installer and run mount. </excerpt> I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the installer components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are loaded) and then switch to a shell. Then I manually invoke the repair process: fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/... ^^ To be replaced by your root partition. Good luck, Florian ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nub...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nub...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nub...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users </excerpt> |
From: Florian B. <eup...@ar...> - 2006-02-28 21:30:15
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Tobias Netzel wrote: > As far as I know Suse does no longer support the PowerPC and I don't > know where to get CD images from. SuSE reclaimed the PPC architecture again for a while. Images are available at opensuse.org. (However I don't know whether there are any kernel 2.4 compatible images available) Cheers, Florian -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan |
From: Peter <pe...@gm...> - 2006-02-28 20:44:53
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I was able to install Ubuntu a while back, by first doing a minimal debian install, and then changing the repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list from Debian to Ubuntu repositories. After an apt-get dist-upgrade my pb1400cs had Ubuntu Breezy installed. Peter > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Hi Vito, > > you can only install distributions that support the 2.4 kernel. > So knoppix will not work. > As far as I know Suse does no longer support the PowerPC and I don't > know where to get CD images from. > On the mailing list was a report of a successful install of Ubuntu > 4.10 (Warty Warthog). > > Tobias > > > > Am 28.02.2006 um 18:11 schrieb Vito: > > Has anyone out there gotten knoppix, Suse or Ubuntu working on > the nubus machines with the current miboot image that tobias, > Daniel, Florian and others have worked on? For those of us > less savy in the linux world - those distributions are > appealing, as they leave some things less to chance (the > chance of someone like me breaking the system) while providing > a great selection of programs, with autodetect and automount > already in place. > > Vito > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Vito <v_...@ya...> > To: nub...@li... > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:56:43 AM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay > hotplug patches > > thx again > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Florian Boelstler <eup...@ar...> > To: nub...@li... > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:51:56 AM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay > hotplug patches > > > > Guy Paddock wrote: > I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off > during startup > recovery too. I have found that the only work-around > is to boot from the > installer and run mount. > > I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the > installer > components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are > loaded) and > then switch to a shell. > > Then I manually invoke the repair process: > fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/... > ^^ > To be replaced by your root partition. > > Good luck, > > Florian > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking > scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend > the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new > coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > Nub...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking > scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend > the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new > coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > Nub...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking > scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend > the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new > coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > Nub...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > |
From: Vito <v_...@ya...> - 2006-02-28 21:28:37
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Thx Peter, I'll give this a try but I am a little primitive in my linux knowhow. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Peter <pe...@gm...> To: nub...@li... Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:44:37 PM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches I was able to install Ubuntu a while back, by first doing a minimal debian install, and then changing the repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list from Debian to Ubuntu repositories. After an apt-get dist-upgrade my pb1400cs had Ubuntu Breezy installed. Peter > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Hi Vito, > > you can only install distributions that support the 2.4 kernel. > So knoppix will not work. > As far as I know Suse does no longer support the PowerPC and I don't > know where to get CD images from. > On the mailing list was a report of a successful install of Ubuntu > 4.10 (Warty Warthog). > > Tobias > > > > Am 28.02.2006 um 18:11 schrieb Vito: > > Has anyone out there gotten knoppix, Suse or Ubuntu working on > the nubus machines with the current miboot image that tobias, > Daniel, Florian and others have worked on? For those of us > less savy in the linux world - those distributions are > appealing, as they leave some things less to chance (the > chance of someone like me breaking the system) while providing > a great selection of programs, with autodetect and automount > already in place. > > Vito > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Vito <v_...@ya...> > To: nub...@li... > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:56:43 AM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay > hotplug patches > > thx again > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Florian Boelstler <eup...@ar...> > To: nub...@li... > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:51:56 AM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay > hotplug patches > > > > Guy Paddock wrote: > I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off > during startup > recovery too. I have found that the only work-around > is to boot from the > installer and run mount. > > I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the > installer > components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are > loaded) and > then switch to a shell. > > Then I manually invoke the repair process: > fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/... > ^^ > To be replaced by your root partition. > > Good luck, > > Florian > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking > scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend > the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new > coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > Nub...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking > scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend > the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new > coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > Nub...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking > scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend > the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new > coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > Nub...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nub...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users |