'ello, I just chrooted into my hard disk from d-i (because it panics on boot ATM) and installed kernel-image-2.6.8 as I really need to get this box set up. Unfortunately it still panics when it starts up (now on kernel-image-2.6.8-3 direct from Debian).
It surprises me that it is doing this as we are now talking about the Debian package (not my custom-compiled kernel that didn't even start properly :-)). I am getting the same error of it not being able to load the IDE drivers and thus not knowing how to talk to the hard disk to boot init from it. /boot is on the main hard disk, which was successfully mounted in d-i, so I don't think it is a case of wrong kernel image file. I've been looking around for .configs for the PowerBook5,4 again but haven't found any -- hence I thought I would start again with the Debian config for 2.6.8 and make small alterations each time before testing it. Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I am getting closer and closer to doing the Windows-style solution of formatting and starting again. This would waste a great deal of time, though, and I know the solution must be simpler/more elegant than that (also I want to learn something, but time isn't on my side ATM). I just don't have the experience with PPC to know what I am doing wrong... Just so you know exactly why I'm doing this: I want to get the Debian kernel-image package working again and then recompile the kernel w/o initrd. Gradually I want to prune out all the stuff I don't need and disable the fb because I can't read the tiny console text (have to ssh in to the box to do anything with it ATM). After this, I hope to get sound, CPUfreq, battery status and keyboard lighting to work. bye just now, -- Matthew T. Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
