Summary: | Installer on Apple G5 1.8Ghz Single hangs | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Release Media | Reporter: | Baobab <nosnad> |
Component: | Everything | Assignee: | Gentoo LiveCD Package Maintainers <livecd> |
Status: | VERIFIED CANTFIX | ||
Severity: | critical | CC: | ppc64 |
Priority: | Highest | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | PPC64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Baobab
2005-01-03 10:08:27 UTC
You are using the PPC64 LiveCD, correct? I booted from the PPC64 liveCD trying both G5 and G5-devfs options, but still no clue of what's happening. Earlier today i saw that the superdrive was detected as hda when using verbose mode(debug) so it's probably not the cd-rom detection? I've been told by Yellowdog that they have a problem with the newest PowerMac G5's 9,1: "There is a new version of the Powermac G5 that just came out, which has been giving us some problems. Boot the G5 into Open Firmware (hold down Option-Apple-O-F while booting). The first line should read something like: Apple PowerMac7,3 ...... If it says something like PowerMac9,1 (or anything above 7,3), you have this new G5. We are working on fixing this, but we have no timeframe set yet." Would this have the same effect with Gentoo? yes, Gentoo would have the same problems as Yellow Dog. This is basicly a kernel problem and it takes some while until the changes are done... Markus this needs to fixed in kernel. I mark this as CANTFIX. We just have to wait until benh or anybody else implements this new G5 version. closing |