Beta-5 PPC Boot media

[Richard (MQ)]

** Originally posted to openSUSE factory list **

Finally got images for PPC with matching MD5 sums, and now I'm confused
about booting. As suggested in various places,
openSUSE-11.1-Beta5-NET-ppc.iso won't boot on my G3 iMac. Nor will
openSUSE-11.1-Beta5.1-NET-ppc.iso - this was more of a surprise.

I checked the hardware with the 11.0 version, that boots fine but
install dies with the expected message about a locked storage subsystem.

Bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446182 opened

I saw the extra directory "11.1B5_PPC_Hotfix" but (a) is this relevant
to my platform (neither Pegasos nor Efika) and (b) if so, how do I use
teh files?

I now understand that these aren't relevant to iMac

Alternatively, is there a way of using the 11.0 boot media, maybe by
modbprobe-ing the relevant driver module?

And Andreas Jaeger advises that there is no way to do this :-(

[Olaf Hering]

Post by Richard (MQ)
** Originally posted to openSUSE factory list **
Finally got images for PPC with matching MD5 sums, and now I'm confused
about booting. As suggested in various places,
openSUSE-11.1-Beta5-NET-ppc.iso won't boot on my G3 iMac. Nor will
openSUSE-11.1-Beta5.1-NET-ppc.iso - this was more of a surprise.

openSUSE-11.1-Beta5.1-NET-ppc.iso is older than the DVD.iso, thats the
reason why it does not boot on pmac.

Please boot copy the inst32 file (or the unpackaged linux32.gz and
initrd32) to your existing installation, add it to the bootloader
configuration and boot it.
For an G3 iMac, the files in CD/suseboot/ or from
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Beta5/PPC-HotFix/ should
work.

Olaf

[Richard (MQ)]

Post by Olaf Hering

Post by Richard (MQ)
Finally got images for PPC with matching MD5 sums, and now I'm confused
about booting. As suggested in various places,
openSUSE-11.1-Beta5-NET-ppc.iso won't boot on my G3 iMac. Nor will
openSUSE-11.1-Beta5.1-NET-ppc.iso - this was more of a surprise.

openSUSE-11.1-Beta5.1-NET-ppc.iso is older than the DVD.iso, thats the
reason why it does not boot on pmac.
Please boot copy the inst32 file (or the unpackaged linux32.gz and
initrd32) to your existing installation, add it to the bootloader
configuration and boot it.
For an G3 iMac, the files in CD/suseboot/ or from
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Beta5/PPC-HotFix/ should
work.

I couldn't see what you meant by this but have now successfully booted
using factory ISO build 0133
http://powerpc.opensuse.org/factory/iso/openSUSE-11.1-Beta5.2-NET-ppc-Build0133-Media.iso

However I now have problems once the installation configuration is
complete and install phase proper starts - it dies with error -3028 when
setting a partition label - see bug 447782
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447782

Has *anyone* managed an iMac / PPC installation using 11.1-Beta5 / 5.1 /
5.2 ?