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 Post subject: GeexBox PPC
PostPosted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 4:01 pm 
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hello folks

I recently tried the GeexBox on X86 and saw that the PPC version was out as well. That would be wonderful to have it running on Pegasos. Unfortunately i trid to boot the kernel but failed. I'm far from being a specialist so i'd like to know if someone succeeded in running it on Peg.
Geexbox is a very small distro (5mo on X86, 11Mo on PPC) who boots on a standalone mediaplayer (DVD, Divx...). Very nive to have it on a USB stick.


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PostPosted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 11:13 am 
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Hi!

I gave it a quick try a week ago, too.
Only included the initrd into the kernel, but unfortunately this
wasn't enough...
I hope I' done soon with my freevo-live, which maybe isn't setup
as professional as geexbox, but at least has tv-out and works
(exclusively) on peg :)

cheers
frostwork


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PostPosted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 1:58 am 
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It uses yaboot to boot, which I never could get to work on a Pegasos (it works fine on a Mac). I'll try to change the ISO file to include an OF bootable kernel. Now it is the same, as on openSUSE (vmlinux + initrd) so I will try to use their script to combine these two files into one bootable kernel image.
CzP


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PostPosted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 8:31 am 
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cool, please post your attempts and results here, i'm very interested.

cheers


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PostPosted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 11:50 am 
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Hi!
@czp

That's almost the same I tried without success.
I guess a complete kernel recompile could do better...

frostwork


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