Hardware/Software config: PowerMac 6500/225
128MB RAM 80GB IDE hard disk used for "normal" system residency with a 1GB HFS partition for MacOS9.1 and the rest setup as Linux swap and ext2 partitions. 6GB SCSI hard disk used for "emergency/recovery" system residency with a 1GB HFS partition for MacOS9.1 and the rest Linux. The question: When I first installed "woody" on this machine it automatically setup with kernel 2.2.20-pmac. After a bit of fiddling, everything worked great except the yaboot stuff didn't want to work, so I continued to boot via BootX. Besides, I occasionally want to run MacOS9.1 on this machine, and that seemed the best way to do it. I thought it would be interesting to try the 2.4.18-powerpc kernel, so I used dselect to install the kernel-image-2.4.18-powerpc package. When it asked if I wanted to setup to boot from this kernel, it warned about not being able to boot other OSes, so I assumed it was going to do yaboot stuff, and told it "no" -- figuring I'd do the BootX version of that manually later. When it was all done, there were some new files in the /boot directory having to do with the new kernel, including the new kernel itself. Also, the /vmlinux symlink now pointed to the new kernel. I copied the new kernel image from /boot into the "System Folder:Linux Kernels" folder on my MacOS partition, and rebooted. In the BootX screen, I told it to use the "vmlinux-2.4.18-powerpc" kernel, instead of the old one, and let it continue booting. All I got for may trouble was a black screen. Recovering from that without reinstalling from scratch was an interesting project, but I won't go into it unless somebody asks. Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks! Rick