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Erik de Castro Lopo | 5 Feb 07:06
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Getting cdrom open on G5 running debian.

Hi all,

It seems I've messed up yaboot on a G5 running debian. anyone know how
I get the cdrom door open to boot from cdrom? I'm using a standard PC
usb keyboard.

Cheers,
Erik
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Bulbenoks Kuprijans | 27 Jan 20:12
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Mark Benson | 24 Jan 00:31
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Re: Video Card Help - IBM POWER5


On 23 Jan 2012, at 23:14, Pat Wall wrote:

> On 23/01/12 22:18, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:39:51PM +0000, Mark Benson wrote:
>>   
>>> I finally got a bootable Debian 6.0.3 system. It's a good start!
>>> 
>>> I now find myself stuck in another hole.
>>> 
>>> Xorg doesn't like either my GXT6500P or my GXT135P graphics boards. It doesn't seem to have a driver for either.
>>> 
>>> I am also totally lost with Xorg. I have hacked good ole' X11R6 with .conf files in the past but this new
auto-configuring system is beyond me, I don't even know where to put a xorg.conf to get it to read it in?
>>>     
>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf should work.
>> 
>>   
> Here is my working xorg.conf [1] from an Intellistation 285 and GXT135P with Debian 6.0.3. I could only get
it to work with the fbdev driver - mga just wouldn't play ball at all.

Excellent! Thanks :)

I wonder if it's actually a monitor issue Xorg is having as the card is recognised and works but my desktop is
at 640x480 @ 8-bit and there are no options available other than that.

> The GXT6500 will only work with the CruxPPC patch which is on their install CD (never tried it).

Interestingly it almost works in Xorg - the colours are a mile off though :)
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Mark Benson | 23 Jan 22:39
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Video Card Help - IBM POWER5

I finally got a bootable Debian 6.0.3 system. It's a good start!

I now find myself stuck in another hole.

Xorg doesn't like either my GXT6500P or my GXT135P graphics boards. It doesn't seem to have a driver for either.

I am also totally lost with Xorg. I have hacked good ole' X11R6 with .conf files in the past but this new
auto-configuring system is beyond me, I don't even know where to put a xorg.conf to get it to read it in?
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Mark Benson | 17 Jan 20:50
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GXT6500P

Another simple question.

Is Linux (Debian or otherwise) compatible with the GXT6500P graphics card?

I have one that I have tested as working in AIX 5L on the 9111-285 and it
appears to be 100% working. Booting any Linux distro results in yaboot working
but either hanging at the next white screen (which it passed successfully with
the GXT135P in) or no video output during the boot process (and a system error
and Attention light indicating the adapter had suffered an unrecoverable error).

So am I on a road to nowhere?

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Benedikt Wegmann | 17 Jan 17:12
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Re: Yaboot install problem - IBM 911-285

Hello Mark,

Am Dienstag, den 17.01.2012, 14:52 +0000 schrieb Mark Benson:
> On 17 Jan 2012, at 14:24, Benedikt Wegmann <benedikt.wegmann <at> gwdg.de> wrote:
> 
> > a while ago I succeeded in installing Debian 6.0.3 (ppc64) on an IBM
> > Power740 via the netinstall image.
> > During the setup process it was necessary to update the yaboot
> > bootloader and manually change its configuration.
> > Once installed however it runs stable and fast, very fast actually.
> > Good luck!
> 
> Thanks. I tried to follow your steps but ned to clarify a few things:
> 
> First, I need to partition 7 MB for PReP and 100MB for a ext3 /boot partition.
Yes, the size of the /boot partition is up to you. If there is a
possibility that you need to have several kernel versions installed,
perhaps compiled them your self, or if you have a generous amount of
disk space available, make that twice as much.
The PReP partition has upper and lower size limits which I don't recall.
7MB however is well within the limits and plenty for the boot loader.

> Second, when the install fails to install yaboot I need to chroot to /target, wget a new yaboot (any
particular version works better?) and use dpkg -I to install it.
Switch out of the installation to a shell *before* the setup attempts to
install yaboot.
I have yaboot version 1.3.16-4 installed
(http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/y/yaboot/). Install it with dpkg
-i yaboot_1.3.16-4_powerpc.deb
Exit the chroot and shell with "exit" (x2) so that you are back in the
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Mark Benson | 17 Jan 14:58
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Yaboot install problem - IBM 911-285

I have a new IBM IntelliStation 285 (9111-285) and am trying to install. Using the latest Debian 6.0.3 DVD or
netinstall images. I can setup and install Debian just fine, but when I hit the yaboot install stage it
fails and reports no partition of type Apple_Bootstrap found. I used guided partitioning on one disk and a
7.3MB PReP partition is present and flagged as Bootable (B).

The Apple partition error is erroneous as IBM use a PReP partition instead so I don't understand the issue.

Can anyone help?

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Reto Grolimund | 16 Jan 11:19

root enforced password change do not work

Hi, 

I installed Debian 5.x with success on power-PC G3 and G4.

But installing Debian squeeze 6.x on the same machines it surged a
problem with the login to normal user accounts:

as I login; the authentication process is asking to change the password;
message:  ''root enforced change password''.

but a new login re-ask the same ''root enforced change password''
again. It seam that the thing do not work as it should.

I encountered this ''root enforced change password'' only on power-PC
squeeze, not on the release lenny and never on Debian i386. Searching in
the mail list for power-PC after the release date of power-PC squeeze I
could not found anything about.

upgrading to ''Sid'' did not change anything.

I would be very happy if somebody could help me about -- even providing
some basic information about the login authentication procedure; to
switch off this ''root enforced change password'' .

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Csanyi Pal | 13 Jan 21:41
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Setup firewall/gateway/server on Bubba Two headless server

Hi,

I have a Bubba Two headless (power pc) server, and on it installed
Debian Squeeze along with bubba packages.

This installation is based on Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze so it's possible
to install every debian package from the squeeze repository.

It has also so called bubba packages and those are also packaged as
debian packages, in deb.

I want to get rid of those bubba packages that are maintained by the
Excito Team: http://www.excito.com/

In the tutorial
http://wiki.excito.org/wiki/index.php/Revert_to_minimal_Debian_installation

is explained how to revert the Bubba installation to minimal Debian
system.

How can I after that setup Debian system for firewall/gateway/server for
my home LAN? 

What I want is to protect my LAN and to get a web server that is
reachable from the Internet and from LAN too.

I want to use Shorewall as firewall manager and apache2 as a webserver.

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Jonathan Nieder | 11 Jan 20:37
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Re: axiom: please try stripping binary on powerpc again

Jonathan Nieder wrote[1]:

> Source: axiom
> Version: 20110301a-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Justification: I don't see how else bug#210809 will ever be fixed
[...]
> debian/rules in axiom contains the following lines:
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> 	ifeq ($(ARCHT),powerpc)
> 	NO_STRIP:=--exclude=axiom
> 	endif
>
> Please try a build with them removed.  If it fails to build from
> source, I can deal with the angry fallout. :)
>
> In suspense,

Camm Maguire wrote:

> Greetings!  I'd like to try this now, but all the dchroots on debian ppc
> machines seem gone now.  What to do?  I'd prefer to test before
> submitting to the autobuilders.

I dunno.  Porters, any advice?

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/645570
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