> powerpc > ======= > > In unstable, 2.4 and 2.6 both work fine on newworld pmac. 2.4 oldworld > pmac is unbootable, but then again it always has been. > > It is reasonable to move for a 2.6 powerpc kernel for sarge, for all > currently supported architectures, the support for those is > better, and upstream (that is the linuxppc folk) as well as our own > kernel powerpc specialist are favoring 2.6 development and bug fix over > 2.4.
Last night I tried installing both 2.4 and 2.6 on my OldWorld Beige G3. (using the sarge netinst daily CD from 2004/07/07) Neither worked, but for different reasons. I've sent installation reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but they haven't yet shown up on the list with a bug number. kernel 2.6 died trying to discover disk hardware -- segfaults. kernel 2.4 died trying to install a kernel -- something about missing dependencies involving kernel modules package. > > oldworld has a bootloader installer so if you boot it using BootX that > should theoretically be OK, but there's been zero testing. BootX depends > on non-free macos 9. Booting either 2.4 or 2.6 via BootX works just fine, thanks! I don't mind giving over a few hundred Mbytes (on a 160 GByte disk!) to MacOS-9 in exchange for a stable boot-loader environment. > No RC issues, apart possibly from Sven's keymap thing. > Depends on whether you count the two bugs I mentioned above. Enjoy! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
