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Hi, |
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OK, I'm dead tired. I admit it - yaboot has kicked my butt this |
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time around. Can anyone help? I did post this problem here 2-3 weeks |
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ago but still haven't been able to solve the problem so I'm back to |
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the well for another drink. |
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The machine is the original 80GB PPC Mac Mini. I used to run Gentoo |
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on it and it ran great for years so I know at one time yaboot worked |
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just fine. For various reasons I hadn't updated it in a long, long |
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time (2 years) and instead of trying to go through the Gentoo update |
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process which is difficult after that much time I decided to just do a |
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new install. I saved copies of my kernel config and etc/make.conf but |
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unfortunately, being primarily an x86 guy didn't think to save |
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yaboot.conf and fstab. I've now done 5 complete Gentoo installs, |
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starting over from scratch in case something I was doing was messing |
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things up but so far I cannot get the machine to boot. Every time, no |
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matter what I do at install time, I get a message |
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"Can't check if filesystem is mounted due to a missing mtab file" |
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A somewhat out of focus screen shot is shown here: |
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/29328985@N03/5014227831 |
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Generally speaking I'm following the Gentoo PPC install guide located here: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml?part=1&chap=10 |
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I've tried both the yabootconfig method as well as manual route. |
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Nothing works for me so far. THey both fail the same way. |
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It's not in the photo but all the way through the boot the kernel |
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calls the hard drives /dev/hda so I'm assuming that's correct in |
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fstab. |
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The kernel is 2.6.34-gentoo-r2 and the kernel config file is attached. |
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ext3 is built into the kernel so that shouldn't be a problem. I built |
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the kernel using the older 2.6.31 kernel config I saved. |
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As a _hardware_ test I reinstalled the old OS X that came with the |
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machine and it boots fine. I blew it away and installed Ubuntu 10.04 |
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for the PPC and it boots fine, but Ubuntu uses and initrc which I've |
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never used before with Gentoo. (And why on this machine as the |
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hardware is fixed has kernel drivers.) |
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I'm a long time Gentoo user. The main Gentoo install seems to work |
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fine on this machine. As best I can tell it's only the yaboot stuff |
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not booting that's holding me up from using this little machine again. |
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Can anyone see what I've done wrong? |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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livecd ~ # mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo |
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livecd ~ # mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc |
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livecd ~ # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev |
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livecd ~ # mount -o bind /sys /mnt/gentoo/sys |
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livecd ~ # chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash |
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livecd / # env-update |
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>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... |
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livecd / # source /etc/profile |
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livecd / # export PS1="(chroot) $PS1" |
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(chroot) livecd / # cat /etc/yaboot.conf |
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boot=/dev/hda2 |
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#device=/pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0: |
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device=hd: |
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timeout=30 |
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install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot |
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magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot |
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image=/boot/kernel-2.6.34-gentoo-r1 |
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label=Gentoo-2.6.34-r1 |
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partition=4 |
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root=/dev/hda4 |
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read-only |
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(chroot) livecd / # mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda |
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/dev/hda |
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# type name length base |
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( size ) system |
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/dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 |
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( 31.5k) Partition map |
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/dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600 @ 64 |
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(800.0k) NewWorld bootblock |
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/dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 2097152 @ 1664 |
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( 1.0G) Linux swap |
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/dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 154202672 @ |
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2098816 ( 73.5G) Linux native |
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Block size=512, Number of Blocks=156301488 |
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DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 |
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(chroot) livecd / # cat /etc/fstab |
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/dev/hda4 / ext3 noatime 0 1 |
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/dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0 |
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/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0 |
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proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 |
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shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 |
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(chroot) livecd / # ybin -v |
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ybin: Finding OpenFirmware device path to `/dev/hda2'... |
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ybin: Installing first stage bootstrap /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot onto /dev/hda2... |
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ybin: Installing primary bootstrap /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot onto /dev/hda2... |
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ybin: Installing /etc/yaboot.conf onto /dev/hda2... |
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ybin: Setting attributes on ofboot... |
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ybin: Setting attributes on yaboot... |
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ybin: Setting attributes on yaboot.conf... |
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ybin: Blessing /dev/hda2 with Holy Penguin Pee... |
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ybin: Updating OpenFirmware boot-device variable in nvram... |
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(chroot) livecd / # ls -al /boot/kernel* |
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5547992 Sep 22 11:06 /boot/kernel-2.6.34-gentoo-r1 |
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(chroot) livecd / # exit |
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exit |
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livecd ~ # umount /mnt/gentoo/proc /mnt/gentoo/dev /mnt/gentoo/sys /mnt/gentoo |
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livecd ~ # |
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livecd ~ # |
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