On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 19:11:00 +0200, Mario Frasca wrote: > Sebastian Tennant wrote: >>>my system does not boot any more from hd. I have to use cd1 from the >>>woody distribution and then tell the booter to load 'hd:4'. [...] >>>ofpath: WARNING: Your kernel is too old for proper support, device may >>>be innaccurate. > >> 1. Downgrade to the 'proposed-updates' version of the yaboot package: >> >> apt-get --purge remove yaboot >> apt-get install -t proposed-updates yaboot >> >> You may need to add proposed-updates to your sources.list
> yes, I had to add a line about it. I just took this one (deb > http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian sarge main) and replaced the > distribution name with 'proposed-updates'. then I ran apt-get update > and the rest went smooth as silk. That will work but it's best to have 'sarge' (i.e., 'testing') _and_ 'proposed-updates' in there. I have a line for every distribution ('stable', 'proposed-updates', 'testing', 'unstable'). 'proposed-updates' probably doesn't have much in it, but I might be wrong. >> apt-show-versions -a -p yaboot > > this did not work on my system. > > # apt-show-versions -a -p yaboot > apt-show-versions: command not found $ apt-get install apt-show-versions > but the other suggestion was fine, thanks! > > just to complete the solution: I added this line to the /etc/apt.conf > APT::Hold "yaboot"; That's fine. > I'm now still wondering how to boot 2.6.x since I don't own a cd-writer. I think the old yaboot will boot a 2.6 kernel though I may be wrong. I can't remember if I tried this. I've now got a 2.6 kernel working with the newer yaboot. > I want to compile my own kernel, but have some difficulties in > understanding the questions about the hardware I have. as I wrote, I am > used to PC's and only lately acquired this beautiful iMac. at the > beginning I had no idea whatsoever of what it contains. now the picture > is a bit better, but not enough to answer to some of the kernel > configuration questions. I have to say that Linux PowerPC hardware detection is quite a long way behind Intel x86. I use an Intel box nearly all the time now because there's a much greater chance of Linux working 'out-of-the-box'. > I have been looking for a Debian kernel source tree and a repository of > .config files, to no avail. $ apt-get install apt-cache (if you haven't already) $ apt-cache search --names-only kernel You'll see all the Debian packaged kernel sources, (and images if you don't want to compile), there for the taking. Simply apt-get install as you would with any other package. Apt-installing a kernel source simply puts the tarball in /usr/src and nothing more. Apt-installing an image sets up sym-links from / to /boot so that everything will work on reboot provided you have the a label defined in your yaboot.conf that lists /vmlinuz as the kernel location. Config file repository? Not heard of one. Ask around on the lists. >>>please cc: to my address! >> OK but this is a little rude don't you think? > I thought that in British English, whatever you say, if you prepend it > with 'please', it is not rude any more... ;-) That's usually true. Perhaps I should say you were being a pain rather than rude. It's a hassle having to CC someone. Everyone seems to have a different opinion on this matter and I suppose it largely depends on whether you subscribe to a mailing list (and have your inbox flooded with messages, 90% of which you're not interested in) and can simply hit 'Reply-All', or whether you read a list as a Usenet newsgroup (that mirrors the list). If you read and post to a Usenet newsgroup your message will obviously reach everyone who reads the newsgroup, but people who are subscribed to the list, and never look at the Usenet newsgroup, will _not_ receive it, (the list does not mirror the newsgroup), and that could be an lot of clever people who could possibly help. The best answer IMHO is to use news.gmane.org as your news server. The great benefit of this is that a post to a gmane newsgroup _does_ get forwarded to list subscribers, and gmane will also handle subscriptions if need be. Try it out. http://gmane.org > well, the problem is that I have no complete access to the net at the > place where I work, only http behind a nosy proxy. and I did not want > to wait until the evening to read the answer! I'll forgive you. sebyte -- CC me by all means but a follow-up will usually do.
