Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Re: New install - Unable to get my ppc Mac Mini to boot the root partition

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Joe Fox <jwfoxjr@×××××.com> wrote:
>> Mark,
>>
>> Did you compile in your ext2/ext3 support as a module or statically into the
>> kernel?  If you compiled them as modules, then you need to create an inirtrd
>> that includes the drivers to load on boot.
>>
>> Just a thought.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> /dev/hda4               /               ext3            noatime
>>
>
> I believe they are both built-in:
>
> livecd ~ # cat /mnt/gentoo/usr/src/linux/.config | grep EXT2
> CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
> CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR=y
> CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
> CONFIG_EXT2_FS_SECURITY=y
> # CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XIP is not set
> livecd ~ # cat /mnt/gentoo/usr/src/linux/.config | grep EXT3
> CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
> # CONFIG_EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED is not set
> CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y
> CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
> CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY=y
> livecd ~ #
>
> - Mark
>

Anyone else able to chime in before I give up on PowerPC again? Sure
would like to get this running again.

QUESTION: Is there a way to rebuild partition 1 on these Apple disks?
The one labeled 'Apple_partition_map '? Seems like that's the only
thing I haven't touched yet having rebuilt this machine twice.

Again, this machine has run Gentoo for a few years. I was doing a
major emerge -e @world operation which seemed to finish successfully
but when I rebooted the kernel doesn't see the drive. I've rebuilt the
machine 2 more times from scratch and continue to be stumped by this
problem.

Thanks,
Mark