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kilaueabart wrote:The result of mkdir ./tmp/.X11-unix strikes me as a bit weird:

mkdir: cannot create directory `./tmp/.x11-unix': No such file or directory.

I thought that was why I should make one!

Anyway, I'm about to go back to kernel 4.1.9. Please remind me: Am I supposed to put the Modules somewhere?

Please try the following command:
(outside the chroot)

That worked, and the following "mount --bind" command. But "xhost + local:" still says "unable to open display."

However, I have a much bigger problem I'm about to write up and post (as "Emergency" probably). I no longer get a proper display in 12.04.

kilaueabart wrote:That worked, and the following "mount --bind" command. But "xhost + local:" still says "unable to open display."

However, I have a much bigger problem I'm about to write up and post (as "Emergency" probably). I no longer get a proper display in 12.04.

I think you have forgotten where you were. Maybe you wasn't in the chroot and executed some commands you wanted execute in the chroot.

@All

I have updated my ubuntu MATE 15.10 PowerPC today. It was a big update. It works without any problems.

I successfully updated ubuntu MATE 15.10 PowerPC inside a chroot on Lubuntu 12.04.5 PowerPC today. Now I have the final version of ubuntu MATE 15.10! Let's have party!
Installation instructions for installing ubuntu MATE 15.10 inside a chroot: http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz ... =80#p35457

Ubuntu 15.10 Is Now Available For Download



It works very well on my A-EON AmigaONE X1000. I am looking forward to ubuntu MATE 16.04 PowerPC Xenial Xerus.

I thought I was going to get MATE 15.10 at last. I downloaded the ubuntu-mate-15.10-desktop-powerpc.iso, made sure the MD5Sum was correct, and burned it to dvd.

The resulting dvd looks almost exactly like the 12.04 live disk from AEON when opened, except the 12.04 disk has a bunch of "boot..." files in the top layer, while the 15.10 disk has none.

Did I do something wrong again, or do I just not know how to boot it? I had been hoping it would be something to install to /dev/sdb2.

kilaueabart wrote:I thought I was going to get MATE 15.10 at last. I downloaded the ubuntu-mate-15.10-desktop-powerpc.iso, made sure the MD5Sum was correct, and burned it to dvd.

The resulting dvd looks almost exactly like the 12.04 live disk from AEON when opened, except the 12.04 disk has a bunch of "boot..." files in the top layer, while the 15.10 disk has none.

Did I do something wrong again, or do I just not know how to boot it? I had been hoping it would be something to install to /dev/sdb2.

Hi Kilaueabart,

Unfortunately you can't install it from a DVD. You have to install it from an initrd.gz.

ubuntu MATE 15.10 installation instructions A1-X1000.pdf

Good luck!

Christian

Those are exactly the same instructions I've been following, that have left me with a failure notice ("No disk found," or something like that) at step 21 over and over again. Do I still use the same initrd.gz (18,488,794 B, 09/21/2015)?

OK, there is one instruction I wasn't following to the letter; I was trying with kernel 4.1 and 4.3. I hope my next try, with 4.2, will do the trick.

Later: I downloaded a new copy of initrd.gz. It was slightly shorter (18,453,666 bytes) than the one I had been using. And I used kernel 4.2. And once again, I "Continue" at step 21 and get "... The failing step is: Detect disks"!

Any decent program should easily find two disks on my system. One spins around -- /dev/sda. To be sure, much of it is full of Amiga partitions, but it has 486 GB of free space on it that should be easy to detect (Disk Utility has no trouble).

The other is solid state. /dev/sdb1 is where Ubuntu 12.04 LTS resides (along with a not-quite-working chroot-wily) in 157 GB. Formatted and waiting for an install of Ubuntu is 105 GB of /dev/sdb2, and there remains 238 GB free on that UNDETECTED disk.

Why can't initrd.gz find something? FRUSTRATING!

kilaueabart wrote:Those are exactly the same instructions I've been following, that have left me with a failure notice ("No disk found," or something like that) at step 21 over and over again.

Could you please try it with the kernel 3.19 too? It could be a problem with the 4.x kernels.

Thanks in advance.

Banzai! Or so I thought at first. I downloaded the 3.19 you referenced, got rid of the old one in cf0 I hadn't used for a long time, copied from there to my usb card, and started once again. Hooray! No failing step "Detect disks" at step 21.

Less than two hours later, it seemed I had set up MATE, although I was a bit disturbed by an instruction to tell CFE to do some strange stuff, including "boot sata0.0:/boot/vmlinuz."

Instead I went with "boot -elf -noints -fatfs cf0:vmlinux-3.19" so I wouldn't have to plug the USB thing back in. Turns out the cf0:vmlinux-3.19 that I had copied to my USB card and based my MATE install on was not FAT formatted!

So I went back to the card after all. Lots of messages, but finally nothing more after a page that started with something about a panic attack.

So I tried cf0:vmlinux-4.2. Again lots of messages, but some in nice color. The last page had "[ OK ] Reached target Multi-User System.
[ OK ] start TLP System startup/shutdown. [ OK ] Reached target Graphical Interface. [ OK ] Started Stop ureadahead data collection 45555s after completed startup.
Starting Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes... [ OK ] Started Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes.

I'm not sure what to try next. Redo the whole thing? Format sdb2 this time?