Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Gentoo on NuBus

[Andrew Gaffney]

I am banging my head against the wall in frustration on this one. I 
built a NuBus kernel that actually booted (Yea!) but the gcloop.o module 
on the LiveCD will not load. It craps out with a bunch of dependency 
errors. Ok, so I tried building the gcloop.o module on my x86 gentoo box 
to extract the files. Can't compile 0.66.2 or 0.66.3 against kernel 
2.4.20 or 2.5.67. Okay, fine. So I try just cloop.o. I can build that 
against my 2.4.20 kernel sources. So I do. I reboot with my 2.4.20 
kernel and load the module with the PPC LiveCD live.gcloop file as an 
argument. When I try to mount /dev/cloop/0 I get all kinds of errors. 
Yes, I specified '-t ext2'. I was going to extract the files and put 
them in a regular ISO and modify the LiveCD slightly to be used with my 
custom kernel. Well, it looks like that's out now too. What do I do?!

Pieter Van den Abeele wrote:
> source is on http://cvs.gentoo.org/~lu_zero
>
> the source used to build the ppc livecd:
>
> http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-src/pvdabeel/
> ppclivecd/files/cloop/
>
> On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 04:49 PM, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
>
>> Where can I get the source for the gcloop.o module? I got a working
>> kernel but it can't load the pre-built module from the livecd
>>
>> Pieter Van den Abeele wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
>>>
>>>>   I just joined this list, so I don't know if this subject has been
>>>> covered before. I have a PowerMac 6100/60. Unfortunately, its  pre-PCI,
>>>> so its *cringe* NuBus. Well, I'm currently running YellowDog Linux  2.1
>>>> on it using a custom kernel patched with support for NuBus that i
>>>> cross
>>>> compiled from one of my x86 boxes. Can this same thing be done with
>>>> Gentoo?
>>>>   I was skimming the PPC Install doc and it said something about
>>>> auto-probing PCI hardware, which if I'm not mistaken, would cause the
>>>> box to lock up. So, even if I compiled a custom kernel, would I get
>>>> caught here trying to install?
>>>
>>> With the old 1.2 cd probably not. The newest ppc livecd is probably
>>> what
>>> you're looking for. Just replace the kernel, boot using bootX and the
>>> thing should work.(if you can get the gcloop.o module to compile and
>>> run
>>> for your config) I can build a custom nubus livecd if you send me the
>>> kernel source and the config you're using. I might be able to build a
>>> really small one especially for nubus if you want.
>>> gcloop hasn't been tested on oldworld yet I think, but it should work.
>>> without gcloop the livecd wouldn't be that small (more like 200-300  meg
>>> instead of 60M
>>>
>>>>   If I can get past this, are there any other pitfalls that anyone
>>>> else
>>>> who has done this before would care to tell me about? Also, does
>>>> anyone
>>>> have a URL to a doc on how to set up a cross-compiler in Gentoo?
>>>
>>> join #gentoo-embedded ask zwelch
>>>
>>>>   I've installed Gentoo many times on x86 boxes and love it. It has
>>>> quickly become my favorite distribution. I want all of my computers  to
>>>> be running Gentoo :)
>>>
>>> :-)
>>>
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>>>> Andrew Gaffney
>>>>
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