This is a tardy followup to my own post to answer a couple of points that other people have already answered, and to thank those people who are actually fixing the problem - my hat goes off to you.
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it doesn't really matter which partition you temporarily > bootstrap yaboot from, just so its not UFS. It does matter if you are forced to reboot by a Kernel panic in mac-fdisk after you have overwritten the partition with your old kernel on and before you've downloaded a new kernel to boot with at the next restart. Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What did you do in mac-fdisk to get a kernel panic? What kernel > version did you use? This has been covered pretty comprehensively in the thread. I was using the "current" woody debian-ppc distribution at 8/Nov/01. Gordon