Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: My mac autoupdated to 10.2.8. Debian Linux still boots fine for me. I have a Dual 533Mhz Snakebite G4.
Fred
Hi all, This is just a warning message for those having a Mac OS X and Linux install on the same machine. Details: This is what I have: cpu : 7455, altivec supported clock : 667MHz revision : 3.2 (pvr 8001 0302) bogomips : 665.19 machine : PowerBook3,5 motherboard : PowerBook3,5 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh board revision : 00000000 detected as : 80 (PowerBook Titanium IV) pmac flags : 0000000b L2 cache : 256K unified memory : 768MB pmac-generation : NewWorld I'm running Debian 3.0.r.1 (testing/unstable) on the same hard disk where OS X has its own partition(s) Yesterday I installed the Mac OS X 10.2.8 upgrade to the machine above: After this, I couldn't boot again to my default kernel which at this time was 2.4.21-ben2 (I had compiled this kernel on the machine above). This whole situation brought me a lot of extra work for a weekend that I actually had planned for nothing else than TV, some Jim Beam and the exploration of the deeper secrets of fetchmail ... :) What saved me in the end, probably, was the fact I had a second, older fallback Kernel (kernel-image-2.4.20-powerpc) in /boot, *and* indexed in yaboot.conf :), which still booted after the OS X upgrade (better: It booted without problems after having stopped cupsys from starting at boot time). kernel-image-2.4.20-powerpc was not build on my machine: I (probably) installed it after a download after a "apt-get install", or something like that ... I was lucky enough to suceed this night in building (even at the first build run .... :), and booting a new 2.4.22-ben2 kernel. I don't think I could have fixed the system so fast without this second rescue kernel in /boot ... And last, but not least: Thanks to all the coders out there, writing the sources for the kernel, drm-trunk, XFree and so much more: I would have been lost this week-end without your excellent work. Best Regards, Wolfgang
