Powerbook 12 inch

soma1992 · Posted: Sun May 25, 2003 4:55 am Post subject: Powerbook 12 inch

Hey everyone,

sorry if this has been asked before (and I searched for it first), but I've got a 12 inch powerbook here and I really want to install gentoo on it but I can't seem to find anywhere if gentoo has the capability to run on it yet. I know ydl can do it but thats redhat based and i really like gentoo.

if so how can i do it? (ive installed gentoo many times on intel based machines)

thanks a lot!
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ralph · Advocate Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 2001 Location: Hamburg

hi, don't know if it is possible, but is there any reason to believe its not? from what i've seen in the forums, there are a lot of people running gentoo on a powerbook, so i think it should work.

have fun and by the way, i'm jealous of your powerbook. :wink:

soma1992 · Posted: Sun May 25, 2003 12:39 pm Post subject:

well the 12 and 17 inch powerbooks have almost completely new hardware and i wasnt sure if gentoo would be able to run on it

lol

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bahkyp · Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 4:32 am Post subject:

There are some quirks but gentoo will run quite happily on a PB 12".

Genreal Advice
your /etc/yaboot.conf needs video=riva:1024x768-16 if you want to use xfree. You compile nvida (experimental) into the kernel. This wrecks the video=ofonly and so you get a tiny screen that is not usable for console work. You need to compile two kernels, one with nvida and one without so you can track the compiles. I have ppc-sources-benh-2.4.20-r10 as my kernel that does Xfree.

Have -mcpu=7400 in you make.conf or some weird thing will happen.

mac-fdisk needs to use the b command to create the bootstrap partition. The c command for /swap and /

Name your swap "swap" and mkswap will do the rest.

You don't need /dev/boot in your fstab.

yaboot.conf likes
boot=/dev/hdcn (your b mac-fdisk created bootstrap partition, n is a number)
device=hd: (/dev/hdc)
partirion=n (/dev/hdcn where n is the number of your installation)
image=/boot/kernel_image (you place the kernels in the /boot directory on /dev/hdcn)
or
image=/kernel_image (you place the kernel images on / )
root=/dev/hdcn (where /dev/ROOT in your fstab is, n is a partition number)
default=macosx or default=linux

I would recomend not compiling system 9 drivers (a checkbox on the mac disk partitioning software) when you repartition your HD as these just take up space and are not necessary under osX and classic when dual booting with gentoo.

Other topics,
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=51380
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=55322
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=46165
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bahkyp · Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 4:34 am Post subject:

There are some quirks but gentoo will run quite happily on a PB 12".

Genreal Advice
your /etc/yaboot.conf needs video=riva:1024x768-16 if you want to use xfree. You compile nvida (experimental) into the kernel. This wrecks the video=ofonly and so you get a tiny screen that is not usable for console work. You need to compile two kernels, one with nvida and one without so you can track the compiles. I have ppc-sources-benh-2.4.20-r10 as my kernel that does Xfree.

Have -mcpu=7400 in you make.conf or some weird thing will happen.

mac-fdisk needs to use the b command to create the bootstrap partition. The c command for /swap and /

Name your swap "swap" and mkswap will do the rest.

You don't need /dev/boot in your fstab.

yaboot.conf likes
boot=/dev/hdcn (your b mac-fdisk created bootstrap partition, n is a number)
device=hd: (/dev/hdc)
partirion=n (/dev/hdcn where n is the number of your installation)
image=/boot/kernel_image (you place the kernels in the /boot directory on /dev/hdcn)
or
image=/kernel_image (you place the kernel images on / )
root=/dev/hdcn (where /dev/ROOT in your fstab is, n is a partition number)
default=macosx or default=linux

I would recomend not compiling system 9 drivers (a checkbox on the mac disk partitioning software) when you repartition your HD as these just take up space and are not necessary under osX and classic when dual booting with gentoo.
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shmuel · n00b Joined: 02 Jun 2003 Posts: 1

hey!! I need assistance!! I have still problems xfree on my Powerbook G4 12 inch to to run to bring. I have the line: video=riva:1024x768-16 inserted in mine/etc/yaboot.conf and riva nvidia (experimental) in kernel.I am a beginner with linux and need instruction for the next steps. I would be grateful for assistance.

shmuel

bahkyp · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2003 3:26 am Post subject:

Assuming there are no probs with Yaboot.

You need to