Gentoo Archives: gentoo-powerpc

From: "Herminio Hernandez Jr." <herminio.hernandezjr@×××××.com>
To: Heiko Schulze <silverlight2008@×××××××.de>
Cc: gentoo-powerpc <gentoo-powerpc@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-powerpc] gentoo on PowerMac G4 yaboot failing to boot
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 19:37:08
Message-Id: CE614BFB-F3E7-436A-AFB4-8F1AAF914E12@gmail.com
1 I have only one HD is not the stock one that comes with the system. It is an OWC legacy SSD drive. I was running both Ubuntu-MATE and Lubuntu on this machine with no hardware issues.
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3 Sent from my iPhone
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5 > On Jul 20, 2015, at 1:54 PM, Heiko Schulze <silverlight2008@×××××××.de> wrote:
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8 > hi
9 > a few month ago i had installed gentoo to my g4 mdd too and had issues with yaboot too.
10 > 2 things. (i'm not sure...)
11 > in the fstab is hda4, but must it not named sda4 ? (i'll remember, that the naming for the hdd is always sdx.)
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13 > for my problem was it simple that i had more than 1 hdd installed.
14 > linux must installed on the first drive. (from the second i had issues to find the hdd)
15 > you could this do a little bit simple :D take an ubuntu-disk and test it for yaboot and/or fstab.
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17 > sorry for my english, it isnt my native language.
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19 > greetz from germany
20 > heiko
21 > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 08:14:15 -0500
22 > Subject: [gentoo-powerpc] gentoo on PowerMac G4 yaboot failing to boot
23 > From: herminio.hernandezjr@×××××.com
24 > To: gentoo-powerpc@l.g.o
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26 > I have tried 3 times to get yaboot to boot gentoo on my powermac g4. Each time was a complete reinstall. I got this working on my ibook g4 so I am pretty sure I am doing this right. I am attaching my yaboot.conf anf fstab file. If anyone can show me what I am doing wrong that would be great!
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