With BonSlack maybe there is a new reason to test the current state of things. I use it on all my x86, 圆4, and ARM machines and if I didn't have some troubles building packages I needed in RiscySlack, I'd be still using it on my Blackbird as well. Slackware is the oldest Linux distribution still going on and one of the six oldest of them all. Slackware current (or here BonSlack current) is done for all of them. The ports are complete for Slackware 14.2 and its patches, except for the three MIPS families, where Seamonkey, Mozilla, and Java are to be compiled yet, and the RISC-V, where the toolchain in 14.2 is too old to work on RISC-V. z/Architecture z900/z990 - s390x - 64bit - big endian.RISC-V GC - riscv64 - 64bit - little endian.OpenPower / POWER8 - ppc64le - 64bit - little endian.PowerPC G5 / POWER4 - ppc64 - 64bit - big endian.MIPS Loongsoon - mips64el- 64bit - little endian.MIPS v2 - mipsel - 32bit - little endian.ARMv8-a - aarch64 - 64bit - little endian.ARMv7-a - armv7hl - 32bit - little endian.If I counted them correctly, there are eleven supported targets: And this time it's not just POWER, it's much much more.
I think it may work when the linux install is on a drive that is in the A slot.It has come to my attention, that my preferred Linux distribution (outside the ppc64le world where I use the Void Linux) has another unofficial port for RISC architectures. I am getting some screws/feet for the second drive and another SATA cable, so I am not giving up yet. I’ve also fooled around with the nf, etc., but still no joy. I’ve tried many different open firmware boot commands, but end up with a folder/question mark. No white screens anymore, just not finding either yaboot, linux, the partition or something. I put the new drive in the B slot and installed Lubuntu. Seems to be a bad cable or maybe the connections on the MB are bad. I also bought a refurbished 1TB drive and it also wouldn’t work with linux when in the A slot. In the process, I tried to move the drive to the A slot and found it was not recognized. I was able to rebuild the drive and get OS X back (in a single partition) working well. In trying to install Debian, I hosed my partitions to the point that GParted couldn’t fix it. Every version of live Linux CD/DVD boots fine. I replaced that pair with one of my previous pairs and now 7GB is working well while I await replacement memory. The fun continues… I found that one of my memory sticks had a bad trace. So, there is no sense installing another drive if I can boot/run the live CD/DVD. I am about ready to give up and just run OS X and maybe play with MorphOS. I googled around today and didn’t find anything. Good old MorphOS still boots and runs great. Previously, Yellowdog worked well and now it won’t boot, nor will Debian or Freebsd. Whether using Lubuntu or Mate, it hangs at a line saying it is opening a display. All of the new hardware is recognized and works fine under OS X. I can still go to OF either using opt-cmd-o-f or using the yaboot menu o option and then boot OS X with: Now with all of that done… I can no longer even run the live CD/DVD, any of them. It has the correct time/date now and maintains it. My clock/calendar would not hold the time, so i thought that my be part of my problem with yaboot/boot. Thanks.Īctually, I have not tried it yet. I would really appreciate one of the knowledgeable folks helping me to get this going. Also, I did try resetting the NVRAM, some time ago. I did try booting via the graphical menu and selecting the linux partition, but it took me to the Ubuntu Stage 1 text menu and none of those options would work. I did check out refind, but it is not for ppc, intel only. For a dual-boot menu, add one or more of: bsd=/dev/hdaX, macos=/dev/hdaY, macosx=/dev/hdaZīoot="/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HDT725032VLA380_VFJ201R80PH9XX-part6"ĭevice=/ ,f2000000/ / / splash" Do not make changes until you have!! see also: /usr/share/doc/yaboot/examples for example configurations. Here is my nfig: nf generated by the Ubuntu installer run: "man nf" for details. If I boot to openfirmware and then the bootstrap partition, it boots yaboot, with no options other than "boot:", but using either Linux or old, it pukes with an error. The three files are in the bootstrap partition yaboot, nf, and ofboot.b, but it does not boot to yaboot.