On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 14:13 -0400, Richard Bejtlich wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I found Pasi's site (http://centos.upi.iki.fi/pub/centos/4/os/ppc/)
> describing how to get CentOS working on a IBM 7043-150 43p CHRP 604e
> RS/6000 box. I have the exact same machine. I followed his
> instructions and got the version of CentOS he provided working on my
> system.
>
> [root@murray ~]# uname -a
> Linux murray 2.6.9-5.0.3.102.EC #1 Sun Mar 6 18:32:26 EET 2005 ppc ppc
> ppc GNU/Linux
> [root@murray ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
> CentOS release 4.0 (Final)
>
> I thank him for posting the files and his instructions!
>
> Is anyone else running CentOS on IBM RS/6000 hardware? Does anyone
> know if CentOS will formally distribute a ppc version for my hardware?
>
> I've only found one problem with CentOS so far -- liblaus is missing,
> so I can't use passwd to change passwords.
>
> [root@murray ~]# passwd richard
> passwd: error while loading shared libraries: liblaus.so.1: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> [root@murray ~]# ldd /usr/bin/passwd
> libuser.so.1 => /usr/lib/libuser.so.1 (0x0ffcb000)
> libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x0ff7e000)
> libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x0ff16000)
> libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x0fef2000)
> libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x0fece000)
> libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x0fe1d000)
> libpopt.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpopt.so.0 (0x0fdf4000)
> libpam_misc.so.0 => /lib/libpam_misc.so.0 (0x0fdd0000)
> liblaus.so.1 => not found
> libselinux.so.1 => /lib/libselinux.so.1 (0x0fda0000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x0fc43000)
> libpam.so.0 => /lib/libpam.so.0 (0x0fc1a000)
> /lib/ld.so.1 (0x30000000)
>
> Have you encountered this issue? Any ideas on how to fix it?
>
> Thank you again for helping me get my 7043-150 doing something useful!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Richard
>
> PS: Has anyone tried running other Linux distros? I did not have any
> luck booting the latest Debian (debian-31r0a-powerpc-binary-1.iso) or
> NetBSD (2.0.2, prepcd.iso) on this system, but maybe I wasn't using
> the right OpenFirmware commands.
We are working on the 4.1beta ppc right now ... Karanbir Singh (z00dax)
and I (hughesjr) are in the #centos-ppc channel (irc.freenode.net) most
of the time. Also there is "puzzled" trying to get the rs6k working and
rstory who is helping us test 4.1beta ppc on the Mac.
There is work ongoing there right now concerning the rs6k and ppc as I
type this e-mail :)
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