I'm using a PowerMac 7600, with a 120MHz PowerPC 604. My immediate issue is that, starting from stage1-ppc-* on either 2004.1 or 2004.2 LiveCD, the bootstrap doesn't work. /usr/bin/gcc complains: Could not run/locate gcc So, I tried copying /usr/power-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3/gcc to /usr/bin/gcc and /usr/bin/cc, and then tried bootstrap.sh again, and it emerged portage and linux-headers, but then it failed to emerge gettext. Something about the compiler not being able to make executables. I got tired of the problem, and decided to complain here. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Get 7600, get Linux with a modern kernel on it, don't replace CPU with a G3. 2. Get a 2004.x stage1, do the stuff in the install procedure until you get to where you do the bootstrap. 3. Now try to do bootstrap.sh. Actual Results: After waiting a small eternity for it to analyze the situation, it fails to use the compiler. You could also skip the steps after the chroot and env-update, and immediately try cc. Expected Results: After waiting a large eternity, it should have given me a working Gentoo system. Background story: Old World Macs don't boot using kernels in the 2004.x CDs. The 1.4 CD apparently does, but it doesn't have SCSI disk support or something. It apparently worked for some Gentoo PPC dev, but the stages aren't around anymore. I got it to where I could be trying to install Gentoo by installing Debian. That was another unexpectedly difficult hassle, eventually involving moving drives around on the 7600's 2 buses. I have no idea whether the problem actually is in my still having a 604, but the stuff seems to be working with other people's G3 and G4, and installing Debian and using a new 2.4 kernel worked with my Alpha. I'm imagining that once you're booted to Linux, and at this place, the New World/Old World difference thing doesn't have effect.
Sounds like that gcc hasn't been configured correctly. Can you try, if 1. gcc --version works? If not, try 2. 'gcc-config 1 && env-update && source /etc/profile' and then again 3. gcc --version As there are more and more OldWorld users, we currently think about a special CD for those machines. But first 2004.3 has to be released.
The 2004.3 stage1 from 20040926 seems to have worked. Now if only we had a working kernel...
Oh, yes, about that gcc config thing: I don't think that would work. When I tried paying closer attention to the error messages once, I saw something saying that the files produced by gcc (invoked by going that whole /usr/powerpc... thing) in the older 2004 stages were not executable.
