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chmod
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 Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2003 8:52 pm Post subject: New G4 7450 1.25Ghz Trouble booting to Frame Buffer |
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Hey all, I'm trying to install Gentoo 1.4 on a brand new G4 tower. It has a Radeon 9000 in it. I downloaded the G4 livecd with nostages. The trouble is that when I boot the "live" choice in yaboot, it dumps a lot of messages before the frame buffer kicks in. Normally the friendly penguin shows up, and the kernel starts displaying all sorts of messages.
The "live-safe" entry boots just fine. The "live-safe" settings appears to set "video=ofonly" in the kernel. This makes it impossible for me to run X using the radeonfb. I can't paste in the what the kernel says about the "live" setting because it is frozen when it boots to it. I emerged ppc-sources and compiled without errors yesterday (8/29) I was able to find similar error output on google...
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT MY EXACT OUTPUT, BUT IS VERY CLOSE TO IT, BESIDES THE KERNEL VERSION
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Welcome to Linux, kernel 2.4.19
linked at: 0xc0000000
frame buffer at: 0xb6008000 (phys), 0xd0008000 (log)
klimit: 0xc03e0420
MSR: 0x00003030
HID0: 0x8014c0ac
ICTC: 0x00000000
pmac_init(): exit
id mach(): done
MMU:enter
MMU:hw init
hash:enter
hash:find piece
hash:patch
hash:done
MMU:mapin
MMU:setio
MMU:exit
xmon uses screen and keyboard
setup_arch: enter
setup_arch: bootmem
arch: exit
openpic enter
openpic timer
openpic ext
openpic spurious
openpic exit |
At this point I have to reboot. I can boot with "video=ofonly" and everything works great (except X) Should I report a bug? How can I fix this?
Thanks everyone! |
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chmod
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| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Any ideas? Should I just report this as a bug? Does nobody else have a new G4 that this is happening on? |
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MacFanatic39
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| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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| happens to me on my Dual gigs MDD G4. I can't even boot with sage mode either though! It sucks..I want Gentoo on my box! See for my other problem.[/url] |
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chmod
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| Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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SOLUTION
I downloaded the latest benh kernel via rsync from penguinppc and it compiled and booted to the radeonfb using "video=radeon" in the kernel command line.
It looks like the portage version of the benh and standard ppc sources are borked for newer radeon cards. |
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MacFanatic39
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 3:20 am Post subject: |
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I'm fairly new to Linux/Gentoo. Could you please elaborate on your solution for this problem? I can use rsync in OS X to download the 2.5 kernal, but what do i do from there?
Thanks in advance,
MacFanatic39 |
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chmod
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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After you download the kernel, follow the steps in the ppc install guide to configure yaboot to boot your new kernel. Here is the section of my yaboot.conf file that you might find helpful.
| Code: | image=/boot/vmlinux
label=basic
root=/dev/hdb4
read-write
append="video=radeon:1600x1200-16 hde=ide-scsi"
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Change the root= line to wherever your main / partition is. Disregard the hde=ide-scsi part unless you are using SCSI emulation for IDE. |
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