Re: Gentoo ppc - still supported?

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Joseph Jezak <josejx <at> gentoo.org> wrote:
>  On 08/27/10 12:19, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Terin Stock <terinstock <at> bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>> If it's just going to be sitting in a closet collecting Apple-dust, then I'd
>>> say yes, it's certainly worth the extra effort.
<SNIP>
>>
>>
> I think the kernel might have gotten renamed, but missed in the
> documentation. Please try using ppc32 instead of apple. I suspect it's
> trying to boot a 64 bit kernel instead of the 32 bit one.
>
> -Joe

Thanks Joe. That worked fine with the most recent 2009 install CD. It
would be good if someone reading could add the Mac Mini to one of the
lists of supported machines and update the docs to explain this a bit
more.

I can now see the old partition and fsck ran cleanly. (I think...)

livecd ~ # mac-fdisk /dev/hda

/dev/hda
Command (? for help): Command (? for help): p
/dev/hda
        #                    type name                  length   base
    ( size )  system
/dev/hda1     Apple_partition_map Apple                     63  <at>  1
    ( 31.5k)  Partition map