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Note: Sorry if this shows up twice, but both my responses (to David |
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and Joseph) seem to have been lost in a black hole...(Resending from |
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gmail). |
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quoth the Joseph Jezak: |
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> > 1. OS X is on the first sata drive, Gentoo will be on the second. Is it |
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> > still necessary to create the 'apple_bootstrap' partition if Gentoo will |
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> > be on its own complete disk? |
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> Yes. Open Firmware looks for a HFS blessed partition to boot from, |
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> which is all the apple_bootstrap partition actually is. It contains |
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> a copy of yaboot as well. When ybin runs, it will tell OpenFirmware |
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> to boot from this device (well, that what the nvram write is for. |
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> If your kernel doesn't have nvram support, you'll have to set this |
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> manually). Note that it doesn't really matter which disk this |
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> partition is on, but it's preferred to have it before the OSX |
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> partition so that if OSX resets the nvram, it will be the first |
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> blessed HFS partition found and still boot as normal. |
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Ok. I suppose I should have explained better. OS X is already installed, so I |
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imagine the bootstrap partition is already on the OS X disk right? Sorry to |
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be thick, but you say 'it doesn't matter which disk' it is on, so as long as |
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it is on one of them that's OK? |
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I should say here, my SATA drive just arrived an hour ago, and I installed it |
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and booted OS X, and it seems the drives were reversed, that is, the old disk |
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is disk 1, and the new one is disk 0. Does this make a difference... |
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I guess I'll just make the partition anyway, as I don't believe it takes a |
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whole lot of space. |
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> > 2. If I follow the PPC64 guide does this give me the 64bit userland? If |
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> > so, is there enough (hard) unmasked software to use this as a general |
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> > desktop machine? Is all software in the package database marked stable |
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> > under PPC64 64bit userland software? Can I mix and match PPC32 and PPC64 |
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> > software? Any and all information on this issue would be most helpful, as |
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> > I don't think I completely understand it (I don't have an x86-64 machine |
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> > so I am mostly ignorant of 64bit issues). |
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> I can't speak too much for ppc64 (I only have ppc32 machines), but |
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> you have a few options. A pure ppc64 machine won't work with |
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> everything. For instance, there are issues with Mozilla based |
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> applications and ppc64, but KDE (and konqueror) should work great. |
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> You can also run a 32bit UL very easily and for desktop usage this |
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> is the recommended configuration afaik. I'm not sure about a mixed |
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> environment. |
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Ok, I see on the mirrors there are PPC64 32 bit UL and 64 bit UL tarballs. To |
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tell the truth I am planning on using KDE anyway (and I can live without |
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firefox) , so I think I will give the 64bit a shot. If it doesn't work out |
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for me I will just do a reinstall. No big whoop. Just playing around for now |
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anyway. |
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Just to confirm, the packages in the database that are under PPC64 arch are |
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the 64 bit userland apps right? I have already checked and everything I |
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want/need is stable for PPC64... |
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> > 3. I have the 23 inch Cinema display and a ATI Radeon 9600 Pro vidcard. |
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> > Are there drivers that can make this setup work? I ask because I booted |
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> > the machine with a Kubuntu PPC livecd to play around and while the cli |
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> > worked, when it came time for X to start the screen went black and I was |
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> > forced to do a hard reset. I am not sure if this was just a problem with |
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> > Kubuntu, or some other reason. I am not too concerned with hardware |
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> > acceleration or anything, at most I just want to be able to watch DVDs. |
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> This should work just fine with DRI as well. I have a Radeon 9600 |
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> in my PB and it works very nicely with OpenGL acceleration, etc. :) |
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Sounds good! |
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I responded to David's post but it seems to not have made it to the list. In |
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that post I asked if all I needed to do was add: |
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VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" |
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to make.conf to get the drivers I need (assuming xorg 7.0). Is this right? |
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> Hope that helped, |
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> -Joe |
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Sure did, thanks a lot, |
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-d |
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