Gentoo Archives: gentoo-powerpc

From: "Herminio Hernandez Jr." <herminio.hernandezjr@×××××.com>
To: "Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)" <nunojsilva@×××××××.pt>
Cc: gentoo-powerpc <gentoo-powerpc@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-powerpc] Re: ybin command not fount
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 18:44:16
Message-Id: E87055E4-04F1-4CF5-89F1-47BADA94645B@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-powerpc] Re: ybin command not fount by "Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)"
1 I used the live CD to get configured and just used it to apply my changes. I will run it again after I get DE going. I just finished installing XFCE and lightdm and verified they working.
2
3 Sent from my iPhone
4
5 > On Apr 14, 2015, at 1:32 PM, "Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)" <nunojsilva@×××××××.pt> wrote:
6 >
7 >> On 2015-04-14 11:39, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote:
8 >>
9 >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 4:47 AM, Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) <
10 >> nunojsilva@×××××××.pt> wrote:
11 >>
12 >>>> On 2015-04-14 01:03, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote:
13 >>>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 12:19 AM, Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) <
14 >>>> nunojsilva@×××××××.pt> wrote:
15 >>>>
16 >>>>> On 2015-04-13, Herminio Hernandez Jr. <herminio.hernandezjr@×××××.com>
17 >>>>> wrote:
18 >>>>>>
19 >>>>>> I new to gentoo and I have a question. I got the base system installed
20 >>>>>> and xorg /KMS and that is working. However I made some changes to my
21 >>>>>> yaboot.conf file and wanted to apply my changes using ybin -v. However
22 >>>>>> when I try to run the command I get command not found. I do not know
23 >>>>>> what I am missing any help would be awesome! Thanks
24 >>>>>
25 >>>>> Have you installed sys-boot/yaboot? If so, are you running ybin as root?
26 >>
27 >> wierd it says not installed but I did???? hmm will try again after lighdn
28 >> finishes installing.
29 >>
30 >> rican-linux@ibookG4-gentoo ~ $ emerge --search yaboot
31 >> Searching...
32 >> [ Results for search key : yaboot ]
33 >> [ Applications found : 2 ]
34 >>
35 >> * sys-boot/yaboot
36 >> Latest version available: 1.3.17-r2
37 >> Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
38 >> Size of files: 220 KiB
39 >> Homepage: http://yaboot.ozlabs.org
40 >> Description: PPC Bootloader
41 >> License: GPL-2
42 >
43 > I have done a new Gentoo install on ppc last week, with a recent
44 > stage3, and I have not been able to build/install yaboot.
45 >
46 > You could try emerging yaboot again and see if there are errors on the
47 > screen when emerge finishes.
48 >
49 >
50 >
51 > So far, I have been configuring yaboot using ybin from the Gentoo
52 > install live CD, after mounting the gentoo / and /boot under
53 > /mnt/gentoo, but without chrooting.
54 >
55 > In this case, you need to specify the path to the configuration file, I
56 > think it is the "-C" option: ybin -v -C /mnt/gentoo/etc/yaboot.conf
57 >
58 > One of the ways the ppc handbook shows to configure yaboot uses the
59 > yaboot binaries from the live cd, perhaps that was how you got yaboot
60 > installed and configured?
61 >
62 >
63 > The problems with yaboot are known,
64 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=544688
65 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527974
66 >
67 > --
68 > Nuno Silva
69 > Helsinki, Finland