Hi!

I tried to install Fedora 10 Cambridge on Pegasos II:
http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-ppc

I used these commands (FC10 PPC docs):
But it says: Pegasos (and EFIKA) should be supported.

I have OF 1.1 (20040405) - there is no public update to OF 1.2+ available :-( Is my problem that I have older OF version 1.1?
Or do you know how to make Fedora 10 working on my Pegasos?

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I don't think OF 1.1 is the problem, but I also don't think living with OF 1.1 is a good idea.

We should get you a firmware update. We'll need your MAC address and if you can read it, the model number of your board just to check (it's written next to the brown connector on the right side of the board), although we can derive that from your MAC address..

The reason there's no public update is because there are two different versions and we don't trust people to stick with the one for their board..

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Matt Sealey

Well, I have a bit more recent firmware, but it does not help. The image is too large to be loaded.

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another distro giving up support for the Pegasos ? :-(

I just started installation with a dirty trick (needs a 1.2 firmware): using yaboot, as described at http://en.opensuse.org/Pegasos#openSUSE_11.0

If installation succeeds, I'll post a detailed description, how I did it. Now still downloading...

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Gave up for now :-( The installer boots, finds network cards, downloads the rest of the installer from the network, but when it comes to partitioning, it is broken:

- it insists, that /boot should be within the first 4GB of the HDD (all my kernels are beyond 20GB...). This could be worked around.

- wants to create a PREP partition, but fails to do it (could not work it around)

Once I find an empty HDD and some more time, I'll check it out, what automatic partitioning can do. Manual partitioning does not work, and I have too much to loose to an automatic partitioning (SuSE 10.3, 11.0, 11.1, SLES 10, Ubuntu 8.10, Debian Lenny, Gentoo, just to name a few :-) ).

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I upgraded my Pegasos II from Fedora 9 to fedora 10 with the Fedora-10-ppc-netinst.iso CD. I tried booting from the /images/netboot/ppc32.img. but that did not work, it hungup after loading.
I copied /ppc/ppc32/vmlinuz and /ppc/ppc32/ramdisk.image.gz to the /boot directory. then edited grub.cfg(I use grub for booting not yaboot) to use them.
rebooted and the installer booted in to graphics mode and found the cd. asked the usual questions ie language, keyboard, network.
when it got to the install or upgrade screen I clicked Upgrade and picked the right partition. I also have many linux dist on one harddrive and this partition #10.
then the installer downloaded everything it needed and installed it.
when the 'Your System Upgrade is done' and 'Time to Reboot' screen came up. I edited my grub.cfg file for the new kernel.
if you use yaboot you should edit the yaboot.conf file.

you can get to the cli by pressing ctrl-alt-F2 all at once.
but the installer crashed when i tried to go back to the X window Alt-F6. go to the cli last before reboot.
the system booted OK and I am writing this in Fedora 10.

here is the first few lines of dmesg in Fedora 10 when switching from X to cli use ctrl-alt-F2 thru F6 and to get back to X alt-F1.
the only problem I have found is when switching from X to cli and back to X I have to login again.

nels

I was talking about a fresh installation, as I don't have Fedora installed right now. That does not seem to work...

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