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

[Pieter Van den Abeele]

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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