openSUSE 10.2 was released almost a week ago, but I was so excited about my EFIKA, that I forgot to post about it :-)

First of all, a big thank you to the openSUSE POWER team! Pegasos PPC / ODW is now fully supported by openSUSE! This means, that:

* YaST partitioner module now fully handles Amiga partition tables, which is the recommended way of using a HDD on a Pegasos
* The default partition type became ext3 (from ReiserFS), which means, that there is no need for a separate boot partition
* Yaboot is used for booting, which makes it a lot more easy

Summary: the guide can be a lot shorter, a lot less workarounds to list :-) I decided to keep a lot of content from the 10.1 version of the guide, as it can lessen the need to open the 'official' openSUSE documentation. If I wanted to list only Pegasos specific info, it would not fill a screen now!

You can read it (will be hopefully ready this evening) at: http://en.opensuse.org/PegasosQuickStart102

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CzP
http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/

OK, it's ready now. As promised: it's a lot shorter :-)

Please give openSUSE 10.2 and this guide a try! It's the easiest to install and use Linux distribution now on Pegasos (yes, I also tested many others :-) )!

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CzP
http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/

I installed OpenSuse10.2 from DVD and i make a kernel for it and try to boot but not working.

Just with DVD boot woks, i skip the instalation procedure and restart from there to enter in gnome....

Any tips where to put 'peg102suse' file to boot...i try with yaboot but i can't see any config for.

My yaboot file is in root partition ,not in boot folder...it's good?

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Pegasos II G4/1 Ghz
1Gb Ram,Radeon 9250 128 bit
MOS 1.4.5
Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy
PegXMac/Molk/Tiger 10.4.11
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PowerMac G4/400Mhz Agp
AppleTV 40Gb
iPod Video 30Gb

Yes, yaboot is in /, and it has the config file built in. So, just use: Where X = Linux_partition_number - 1

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CzP
http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/

Hi

I just updated to 10.2 from 10.1 fresh install.

Good work!

I don't seem to have yaboot ?
Where does it live ? I expected it to be installed to /

In your guide, please add a line for the updaters: remember
to change bootloader to use yaboot or make a new disk image
and modify your bootloader to use it.

I forgot and couldn't understand why I could boot but my
kernel didn't match any kernel modules: no net, no USB, etc
etc. Very worrying!!

Anyone make a nice RPM of ASFS module for 10.2 ?

thanks

koan

Sorry, I never tested upgrading, just fresh installs, as I always run on the latest development snapshot :)

You are right, 'yaboot' should be in /. If it's not there, you can still use 'mkzimage', as in 10.1. I'll check out, how to put yaboot on an already installed system...

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CzP
http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/

I try this ,but after few second of black screen my Peg reboots :?

It's possible to reconfigure yaboot with install DVD?

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Pegasos II G4/1 Ghz
1Gb Ram,Radeon 9250 128 bit
MOS 1.4.5
Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy
PegXMac/Molk/Tiger 10.4.11
-----------------------
PowerMac G4/400Mhz Agp
AppleTV 40Gb
iPod Video 30Gb

It's always possible to boot from the CD/DVD and start the installed system from there. Actually, this was the only way of installing 10.1 :)

Once you can login, just run 'lilo' as 'root' user, and 'yaboot' will be (re)installed.

If yaboot does not work for you, please use 'mkzimage' to create a bootable kernel image, as described in the 10.1 guide, I wrote.

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CzP
http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/

Yes i boot from DVD and run 'lilo'

look what i get

linux-wgp2:/home/marcel # lilo
running on pegasos
yaboot will use a buit-in yaboot.conf with SmartFirmware version 1.2
removed `/yaboot'
`/tmp/ppc_lilo/yaboot' -> `/yaboot'
set OF boot-device '/pci@80000000/ide@C,1/disk@0,0:5' does not work yet on Pegasos.
linux-wgp2:/home/marcel #

I think the OF is the problem

now i try too boot with yaboo if i can;t i try with mkzimage to make a boot kernel

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Pegasos II G4/1 Ghz
1Gb Ram,Radeon 9250 128 bit
MOS 1.4.5
Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy
PegXMac/Molk/Tiger 10.4.11
-----------------------
PowerMac G4/400Mhz Agp
AppleTV 40Gb
iPod Video 30Gb

It works with mkzimage and i boot with no problem with SUSE 10.2

i use this commands:
mkzimage \
--vmlinux /boot/vmlinux \
--initrd /boot/initrd \
--cmdline "root=/dev/hda3 quiet sysrq=1" \
--output /tmp/pegasos_bootfile

I put resulted file on my affs boot artition and adapt the OF menu.

Thanks for help ;-)

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Pegasos II G4/1 Ghz
1Gb Ram,Radeon 9250 128 bit
MOS 1.4.5
Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy
PegXMac/Molk/Tiger 10.4.11
-----------------------
PowerMac G4/400Mhz Agp
AppleTV 40Gb
iPod Video 30Gb

Hi

I guess the update didn't set up lilo:
But I am using zimage now anyway.

thanks

koan