New install fails to boot.

Hi again.

Managed to muddle through the install (mostly) OK, but my
kernel is not 
booting. First of all, when building the kernel the guide
says to use "make 
vmlinux && make modules_install" so I
faithfully followed the instructions. 
This built me a kernel with no modules for some reason. So I
built a new one 
in the fashion I am accustomed to: I did "make
&& make modules_install". This 
time my modules were made, and I copied vmlinux to /boot.

Then, when I tried using yabootconfig as in the manual it
failed on me, saying 
something like "failed to get required information. Did
you use 
yabootconfig --chroot" or somesuch. So I created a
yaboot.conf manually, 
using the guide as a model. I rebooted, and yaboot seemed to
be working, it 
gave me the menu and everything but Linux would not boot
(more on this 
later)..

So I booted the livecd again, and this time I 
ran "yabootconfig --chroot=/mnt/gentoo" and this
time it worked, but didn't 
create a menu entry for OS X or to boot from the CD. So I
mix and matched and 
currently have this: 

###########
boot=/dev/sda2

ofboot=hd:2

device=/ht0,f2000000/pci7/k2-sata-rootc/k2-sata0/disk0:
timeout=30
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot

image=/boot/vmlinux
        label=Linux
        root=/dev/sda4
        partition=4
        read-only

macosx=ultra1:3
enablecdboot
enableofboot
########

Info:
sda1 partition map
sda2 apple bootstrap
sda3 linux swap
sda4 linux '/'

sdb1 partition map
sdb2 apple bootstrap
sdb3 OS X

Again I rebooted, and all seems fine. It boots from a CD, it
boots OS X just 
fine, but the one constant throughout all my attempts is
that when trying to 
boot Linux, it prints this cryptic message and hangs:

found display :/pci0,f0000000/ATY,SimoneParent10/ATX,
Simone_B1, opening...

Since yaboot seems to be working fine otherwise, I am
thinking this may be a 
kernel issue, but truly I have no idea. Have I forgotten
something important? 
I can post the kernel config if you want to see it.

Does anyone recognize what may have happened here?

Thanks,
-d
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Got it working. I am not sure what I forgot but I used the
kernel config from 
here: h
ttp://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_on_a_G5

and it fired right up. Still some errors/warnings on boot,
but I think I can 
figure them out. Now to install X...

-d
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darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org
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with more expected..."
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> Again I rebooted, and all seems fine. It boots from a
CD, it boots OS X just 
> fine, but the one constant throughout all my attempts
is that when trying to 
> boot Linux, it prints this cryptic message and hangs:
> 
> found display :/pci0,f0000000/ATY,SimoneParent10/ATX, Simone_B1,
opening...

This issue is almost always a result of not including the
proper
Framebuffer drivers.

-Joe
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quoth the Joseph Jezak:
> > Again I rebooted, and all seems fine. It boots
from a CD, it boots OS X
> > just fine, but the one constant throughout all my
attempts is that when
> > trying to boot Linux, it prints this cryptic
message and hangs:
> >
> > found display :/pci0,f0000000/ATY,SimoneParent10/ATX, Simone_B1,
> > opening...
>
> This issue is almost always a result of not including
the proper
> Framebuffer drivers.
>
> -Joe

Hi.

I did make sure I included support for 'radeon framebuffer'.
I noticed I did 
not include support for USB monitor, so that may have been
the culprit. In 
any event, I am up and running now (thanks to the config I
found at the wiki) 
so all is good!

Just building kde now, and will attempt Xorg configuration
tomorrow...

-d 
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"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10,
with more expected..."
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