Hello Chris [ snip ]
>> *Adam Di Carlo said:* >> >>>> After initializing the swap partition, it is not possible to execute >>>> the point "Initialize a Linux Partition". After selecting this point >>>> in the menu, the screen goes1 >>> black, and the installer system >>>> restarts! >>> >>> Isn't this caused by my build with bad versions of pmac-fdisk and >>> other *fdisk packages? >> >> No idea! > > No Adam made the same mistake I did, you're not messing with mac-fdisk at > this point. > >> > Please try the version 3.0.21.0.1, now available at >> > <URL:#http://people.debian.org/~aph/boot-floppies-woody/disks-powerpc/current/#>. >> >> I am going to try this! Sorry, I couldn't do this yet, every 5 minutes, my network connection goes down.. and it's not a modem! >> Did I forget anything? > > Only that I said I thought it had been fixed. Let me 'splain a little > more about that. I was seeing dbootstrap restart at the point during > kernel install when it mounted a partition, in December I think. There > were several bugs at the time about it, IIRC. > > Anyway, I made a bunch of changes in the code that mounts and unmounts > partitions, and cleaned that problem up. I think my initial assumption, > that you were seeing the same problem, was wrong. I understand. > I just had an inspiration. Someone put in debugging code to help when > we get segfault problems. It won't show the registers for your arch, > but it will at least give a backtrace which may prove helpful to > someone around here. > > The way you activate it, is add debug to your boot arguments. It's > supposed to give you a backtrace on stderr. Can you try that with > the troublesome kernel? Ok, I'll do this tonight! I think debug=mem would be the right thing for my machine (and afterwards get the log out of the ram under AmigaOS)? -- Thanks for your help, I hope I can get something useful out of the kernel, Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
