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On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Terin Stock <terinstock@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> If it's just going to be sitting in a closet collecting Apple-dust, then I'd |
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> say yes, it's certainly worth the extra effort. |
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> :P |
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> -- |
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> #Terin Stock |
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Worse - it would likely just go in the trash. You can buy these things |
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on Ebay sometimes as low as $50 so I was just thinking it didn't make |
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a lot of sense to spend time and money on it, but that's not a good |
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attitude so maybe I should give it a try. |
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I'll ask some questions in this thread. If I need to create another |
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then I'll do that. |
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BACKGROUND: I'm primarily an x86 Gentoo user since 1999. I'm a |
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hardware guy and not an IT guy and don't have _any_ sys admin |
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background other than managing my own Gentoo boxes. I'm familiar with |
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the distro from the sense of keeping my machines running after using |
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Gentoo for a decade. I know NOTHING about Apple machines. I do audio |
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recording and bought the Mac to play with Apple OS X apps but grew |
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tired of OS X pretty quickly and started using this machine as a |
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MythTV backend server a few years ago. |
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STATUS: The machine starts booting, the kernel comes up and runs |
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through and it starts initializing all the services and what not. |
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(Where it says either [OK] or [!!]. ) It gets to 'Checking root |
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filesystem ... ' and then fails with a 'superblock could not be read' |
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message. I tried the suggest e2fsck -b 8193 command but that didn't |
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work. It's never worked for me. |
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Since I was going to do a complete machine rebuild anyway - I haven't |
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touched it in quite awhile as I didn't want to update Myth - I thought |
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I'd try using a new CD. (the reason I started this thread.) When |
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booting from either 2008 or 2009 CD I get the boot screen. If I hit |
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enter I get a message about ramdisk loading and then |
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Invalid memory address at SRR0:0197a930 SRR1:00083030 |
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but is also says |
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Apple PowerMac 1-,2.4.9.4f0 BootROM built on 7/6/05 |
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Welcome to Open Firmware |
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To continue booting type mac-boot |
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ok |
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If I try mac-boot it just hangs at: |
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"Loading second stage bootstrap..." |
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Now this page |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml |
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doesn't even mention the Mac Mini so I'm guessing it's part of the New |
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World class of machines. The instructions suggest: |
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boot: apple video=ofonly |
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but I get a message |
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cd:2,apple: Unknown or corrupt filesystem |
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So, am I doing something wrong trying to boot from the CD or is the |
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machine somehow not working correctly? |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |