Handbook Talk:PPC/Installation/Kernel

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A comment [[User:Larry|Larry]] 13:52, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
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fstab and boot partition

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There's discussion here about creating a temporary entry in the /etc/fstab file to point to the boot partition. It'd be helpful to clarify these instructions for PPC installations in which there is no separate boot partition. --Wideaperture (talk) 16:20, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

Yabootconfig usage directions unworkable

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The ppc32 handbook recommends exiting the chroot to use yabootconfig, this is unworkable: the yabootconfig tool is not present on the gentoo ppc32 LiveCD, and even if the PATH variable is adjusted so that the yabootconfig script can be found along with the other tools, the script still fails because of a hard-codded path at line 660 in the yabootconfig script.

Handbook:PPC/Installation/Bootloader#Default:_Using_yabootconfig

Progman3K (talk) 00:41, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

is linux-firmware actually needed on PPC?

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The linux-firmware package is more than 200MB in size. The install guide says that it is optional. Is it really providing any benefit on PPC platform? Min.xu (talk) 15:20, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

Try asking at the Gentoo forums or in #gentoo (webchat) or #gentoo-ppc (webchat).

— Waldo Lemmer 14:52, 11 May 2024 (UTC)