Hi all,
I need a bit of guidance in getting a Ti PowerBook booting.
Today I allowed Apple to upgrade the OSX on my machine and now Linux
does not boot. This may be a problem wiht the just released today 40MB
patches so all take care.
The machine is a Ti Powerbook running Debian stable. The Linux is on
partition 11 and is from what I remember ithe kernel is just vmlinuz either in
/ or
/boot. I boot with yaboot 1.3.6 and from the prompt Linux is the
default. MacOSX is an option.
It was working fine then oday I did an OSX update. OSX works fine still
(except M$ Explorer now crashes but that is no loss) but when I go to
boot linux this is what happens.
The first stage boot loader works and I get ...
boot: l <--- I hit X for MaxOSX and it works OK and into OSX
< I hit l or linux single and I get...
second stage boot loader starts
Welcome to yaboot 1.3.6
boot: <--- wait
The kernel starts to boot
Welcome to Linux kernel 2.4.20
......etc etc
then it fails at the text only a few lines down..
openpic spurious
openpic exit
The laptop then shuts down
This suggests that the bootloader is ok but that the kernel has been
clobbered.
I then tried booting from a debian boot CD (CD number 1) and
it does not boot with either the 'install' or the 'install-safe' images.
I googled for this openpic error but I get refs to where ppl had kernel
errors after trying a new kernel and had this problem. I havent
compiled a new kernel just had an OSX upgrade.
Mike
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"Not Hercules could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none." --
Shakespeare
Mike Lake
Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical.
