Re: Core99/Powermac3,1 support missing in xnu since Jan 2001?
Re: Core99/Powermac3,1 support missing in xnu since Jan 2001?
- Subject: Re: Core99/Powermac3,1 support missing in xnu since Jan 2001?
- From: Chris Bednar <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 20:07:04 -0600 (CST)
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Yes, AppleCore99PE and AppleMacRISC2 support have been removed from the
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kernel proper. I think the cube should work with either.
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What version of Darwin are you trying to run. Those drivers should have
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been installed with Darwin 1.3.1 or 1.4.1. Are you trying to update an
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old 1.2.1 based system?
It was a straight 10.0 setup, I think. Other xnu updates I
had tried did the same thing to me as the 10.1 update did.
Actually, the drivers were all installed. The file that was
foobar was /System/Libraries/Externsions.mkext, which I guess is
just a list of available kernel modules. The installer
creates one that's about half the size of the one on the CD.
After hunting around with ResEdit and Sherlock (WHY do you people
think I need to be protected from myself with hidden files?)
I copied that file from the CD to my disk, and it boots.
I did try another time with the installer before I did all
of this, just to be sure.
Now, I just have to figure out how to get my user accounts
straightened out again (I'm getting them from an NIS server) and
should be good to go. My NFS mounts stayed as they were, and
the NetInfo YP stuff is still there; if I remember right, I just
need to edit a file somewhere to turn that back on.
Anyway, the installer definitely has a bug for platforms that
need kernel extensions to run, and I know a lot of people have had
this problem, so I hope someone will pick up on this and fix it.
By the way, now that I have the XFree86 crutch available,
I think I'm just about ready to stop booting linuxppc on this
thing... maybe our next big cluster will be Apple after all!
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Director, Distributed Computing Product Group
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