Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Greetings & Power Mac questions :)

[Wolf J. Flywheel]

On Friday 11 April 2003 20:30, tom wrote:

> you want support for cuda based powermacs checked and support for adb
> raw keycodes unchecked. I have no idea as to why it would not expand.

	Neither do I, but after re-merging several system components that checked 
out as having bad md5s, make mrproper -> menuconfig with the PPC defaults 
got me back into that area.  I did less fiddling this time and I am able 
to boot the system.  However, after the kernel init screen (where it 
tells about framebuffer addresses and such) nothing else displays.  It 
*is* functional; I just can't see what I'm doing.  I'm sure it's some 
video option I need to pass to the kernel.
	After some blind typing, I managed to get SSH up and running, so I can 
connect from my main PC.  That and networking are added to default 
runlevel.  Maintenance should be easier now.  :-p

	As for the CUDA tibdit, I do see mention of that in dmesg.  However, I 
sure wouldn't have known to enable it, so it's a good thing that's a 
default.  :)

> there is a BootX how-to at http://penguinppc.org/projects/bootx/

	Thanks; already went there before installation to check it out... the 
latest version on this site (last updated September 2001!) is 1.2.2, yet 
the one on the Gentoo CD calls itself 1.2.3 -- has Gentoo taken over 
custody of BootX?  ;)

> click the Options button and uncheck use specified ramdisk in the popup
> dialog - click OK
> the main screen of BootX should return with a dialog field where you
> can enter sdc4 and below it a larger field where you can pass any
> additional arguments to the kernel. 'devfs=mount' comes to mind if your

	Ok, I was having a "user error" -- if you punch Options and don't change 
anything, you don't get any extra controls afterward.  :-p  It was 
already un-checked, so I wasn't seeing anything new after hitting "Ok".

> kernel is so inclined. You do not have to copy an initrd anywhere,
> unless you have one set up as a rescue disk (a la debian), or some
> other specialized purpose (such as install).

	Now, that's an idea... I'll have to look into that!

> > 	(A diffuculty I have in messing with this Mac is that each time I
> > start up with Extensions enabled, it tries to connect to a shared
> > drive that does not exist in its new environment.  As my only options

> start up with ext off and remove the offending pref file from the
> system folder>preferences folder. I'm sorry I can't be more useful as
> to the name of said file, it's been a while since I did 7.5 :)

	Me, too!  At work, the Macs run 8 or 9, I'm not sure (since I don't use 
them much any more, and there's only one left anyway).

> HTH,

	Yes, it did!  I found a suspicious-looking control panel called 
"AutoRemounter" and moved it elsewhere, along with the AppleTalk control 
panel.  Now I can boot into MacOs without that silly connect box popping 
up.  (If I go to the Chooser, however, as the only thing there is 
AppleShare, it comes back.  I'll tackle that later.)

	For now, I'm trying to get some usable local video, and build a tighter 
kernel without useless extra stuff.  Oh, and I should probably do my 
taxes sometime this weekend.  ;)

Thanks for your help!

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