Ah ha ...
I have got it booted from CD1 and now have a shell running. I came
across a post to this newsgroup
* Subject: Debian not booting after OSX (re)install.
* From: Philippe Sainte-Marie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:17:55 +0200
<quote>
"I just reinstalled my Mac OS X a few days ago and today
i tried to boot into Debian.
As always after a osx reinstall, i have to manually
boot into OF and then enter into the yaboot located in the
bootstrap: boot hd:X,yaboot
it doæs load yaboot correctly, then i select my kernel image
it begins to load and then stop after the:
Welcome to Linux, kernel 2.4.21-ben2
and then stops the machine (shutdown) after:
'openpic: exit'
That kernel was just working fine a week ago.
Any hints?
<end quote>
There were no hints for him alas :-(
It looks like he may have had the same prob I am having but that was
back in July.
Mike Lake wrote:
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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Mike Lake
Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical.
