Subject: Re: Sound on iBook
From: Andrew Diller (dillera@isc.upenn.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 14 2000 - 12:15:48 MDT
> Has anyone (until now) set up an easy to apply HOWTO for installing YDL on
> an iBook? And does it even work with Mac OS 9.04? (Seems like *that* was
> causing my iBook to shutdown on booting...)
Sort of......
Here are the issues that I know about with Cs 1.2 and the ibook:
(these what I'm aware of, please inform me if I'm wrong here!)
- video
- updating to 9.0.4 will cause bootX to stop working- you _must_ use yaboot.
Using yaboot relies on OF (Open Firmware) to set the Rage Mobility video
card in the ibook. Unfortunately, not enought is know about this, and as
a result you _can't_ set OF video via OF so all you get is 8bit video
- MOL (mac on linux) works at 8 bit, and but the fullscreen mode (i.e. not in
a Xwindow) does _not_ work
- ethernet
- ibook uses a new ethernet chip that is buggy with the current crop of
kernals.
- Mol ethernet does _not_ work
- ethernet is super slow
- ethernet has problems (I can't ftp or scp files - wget works sometimes)
wget uses http to retreive files. It works sometimes- ftp and scp fail all the
time for me. How do they fail?
- slow
- transfers till the last byte then sits and times out
- if it does complete the xfer, the file is corrupt (tar complains)
Here is my yaboot howto:
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Yaboot
for: ibook with CS 1.2 YDL
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Gather files: [in MacOS]
- get macgzip --> http://persephone.cps.unizar.es/~spd/gzip/
- get yaboot --> http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/yaboot_0.5.gz
- get the YDL CS 1.2 CDROM
suseboot: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/BETA/suseboot.hqx
Installation:
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YABOOT- download with IE- there have been problems with downloads via Netscape
- IE will have stuffit expander expand yaboot. Stuffit is bad. Throw away
this corruptfile!
- Use MacGzip to ungzip yaboot_0.5.gz The resulting file is called yaboot
- copy this file over to the root of your mac harddrive
yaboot.conf - copy the yaboot.conf from the YDL CDROM Install folder
- copy this over to the root of your mac harddrive
yaboot.tbxi - copy the yaboot.tbxi from the YDL CDROM Install folder
- copy this over to the root of your mac harddrive
vmlinux - you should already have this in your System Folder
- move it back out and onto the root of your ibook hard drive.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Editing the yaboot.conf file:
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The yaboot.conf from the YDL cdrom is of course set up for booting the CDROM-
you need to edit it for your setup.
Here is what I changed my yaboot.conf to:
======================================================================
======================================================================
======================================================================
init-message = "\nWelcome to Yellow Dog Linux!\nHit <TAB> for boot
options.\n\n"
timeout = 15
default=linux
* To boot the kernal on your _macintosh_ partition:
image = hd:8,\vmlinux
label = linux
root = /dev/hda9
novideo
==========seperator================================
* To boot the linux kernal on your _linux_ root partition:
image = hd:9,/boot/vmlinux
label = linux
root = /dev/hda9
novideo
======================================================================
======================================================================
======================================================================
hd:8 is your _macintosh_ partition!!! Remember, that's where you have the
kernal.
label is the label for the kernal
novideo works best for ibooks
root is your _linux_ partition.
So, in your root of your Macintosh drive you should have:
- the kernal, vmlinux
- yaboot file that you ungzipped
- yaboot.conf that you edited from the YDL cdrom
- yaboot.tbxi that you copied from the YDL cdrom
Now reboot, and hold OPTION COMMAND O F (that's all four keys at once)
in the OpenFirmware menu type: (if your Mac partition is infact hd8)
boot hd:8,\vmlinux
and it will boot.
Questions that I have:
- how to boot using a kernal on the linux partition?
this works for me however with my ibook and 9.0.4
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-andy
Andrew Diller dillera@isc.upenn.edu
Unix Systems Group, Info Systems & Computing
University of Pennsylvania
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