On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:58:21PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 10:10:52AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > > Anyway, please test and give feedback, before i upload, so we can have > > > all these powerpc subarches supported by debian-installer and debian as > > > of the sarge release. > > > > I successfully booted the powerpc-pmac kernel with quik on my > > oldworld, so apparently the size is not a problem for quik. > > > > However, it didn't load the modules. I had copied the modules into > > > > /lib/modules/2.4.22-powerpc-pmac/ > > > > As they had been unpacked on my newworld from the deb. But during > > boot, the kernel was looking in > > > > /lib/modules/2.4.22-powerpc/ > > Are you sure you booted the right kernel, and not one of the older > 2.4.22-1 kernels ?
Yes. In fact it did the same on my newworld, where I had actually installed the deb using dpkg --install. I wasn't able to get online for the last day or so, and I finally noticed it couldn't load any modules during the boot messages -- so that was why. Changing the /lib/modules directory name to match the uname fixed it. AFAICT. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net
