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On Sep 24, 2010, at 4:30 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Joseph Jezak <josejx@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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>> My responses are inline this time. It's easier when there's so much |
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>> going on! |
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>> On 09/23/10 16:41, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>>> Two pictures posted: |
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>>> |
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>>> Top half of boot screen: |
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>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/29328985@N03/5018717650/ |
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>>> |
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>>> Bottom half of boot screen |
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>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/29328985@N03/5018718202/ |
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>>> |
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>> Okay, these look exactly as expected. You've booted into the shell |
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>> fine |
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>> and the kernel does detect the hard drive fine. It appears that the |
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>> disk |
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>> was not cleanly unmounted, which is what the messages in the bottom |
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>> picture indicate. Once you get USB working so we can type into the |
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>> console, we'll take a look at what's actually going on. |
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>>> Full USB HID support is built as modular. I don't seem to be able to |
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>>> change it to built in. make menuconfig is only giving me modular or |
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>>> not set. (Kernel config USB info this is set is at the end) |
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>> If you use menuconfig and you go to the "Help" option, it will tell |
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>> you |
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>> what dependencies need to be set in order to build the module. Most |
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>> likely, you did not set the USB subsystem itself to be built in. |
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>>> lspci says the controller is an Apple controller and the driver is |
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>>> 'macio' which seems sensible. I see it in the boot screen I think. |
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>>> That driver is built in, but the PATA_MACIO driver is not: |
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>>> (chroot) livecd linux # cat .config | grep MACIO |
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>>> # CONFIG_PATA_MACIO is not set |
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>>> CONFIG_ADB_MACIO=y |
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>>> (chroot) livecd linux # |
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>>> Maybe I've mistakenly left the right disk driver out of the kernel |
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>>> thinking the hardware was SATA based? Does the PATA_MACIO option |
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>>> need |
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>>> to be set for the Mac Mini? I don't understand how this kernel |
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>>> config |
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>>> would have ever worked befor unless I'm confusing where it came |
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>>> from. |
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>>> |
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>> You're using the old style driver which results in devices named |
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>> hdX#. |
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>> It's called IDE_PMAC. The new driver which uses the sdX# naming |
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>> convention (and uses libpata), is called PATA_MACIO. |
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>>> Does the append="init=/bin/bash" command allow the kernel to load |
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>>> drivers or do I need to build USBHID into the kernel to get the |
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>>> keyboard to work at this level of boot? |
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>> I would built it in for now, it'll be easier since there's no good |
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>> way |
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>> to get into the system to tell it to load the drivers. |
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>> -Joe |
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> Hi Joe, |
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> OK - I got USB working and with the append="init=/bin/bash" in I |
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> can at least do cd and ls commands. |
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> All the devices you asked about exist - /dev/hda1 through 20, |
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> /dev/hdb1 through 20, /dev/null and /dev/zero - all exist. |
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> Doing know if it's a clue but in this append="init=/bin/bash" |
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> state I was unable to do a reboot or a shutdown as it complained about |
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> missing initctl I think? |
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> Being that I made a number of changes to the kernel config to get |
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> USB working I remove the append line from yaboot.conf and tried |
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> booting into Gentoo proper but it's still stopping at the same place |
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> with the same message about no mtab file. |
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> I'll put the append back in and wait for further ideas. |
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> Thanks for sticking with me! |
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> Cheers, |
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> Mark |
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Assuming you are still stopping near: |
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fsck.ext3... |
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Can you confirm that /sbin/fsck.ext3 exists? |
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If not, then emerge e2fsprogs. |
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Barry |