On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 06:54:29PM -0300, Eduardo Trápani wrote: > Hi! > > I'm migrating Debian on an iMac G4 to a new G5 (Apple PowerMac8,2 5.2.5f1 > BootRom). > > I downloaded debian-testing-powerpc-businesscard.iso (not too much bandwith > to use) today from > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/current/. > > When I run install-power4 I get the following messages: > > ... > mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice > Oops: kernel access of bad area sig: 11 [#1] > ... > Kernel panic: attempted to kill init! > <0> Rebooting in 180 seconds .. > > I got the very same message from the stable installer. After a couple of > hours of googling and searching in this mailing list I really don't know > what to try next. Any ideas?
Can you try booting the daily builds ? These are at : http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc64/netboot64/ or : http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc64/cdrom64/ Get the initrd.gz and vmlinux on a cd or tftp boot server, write the adequate yaboot.conf, and try them out. No idea what the cdimage-testing daily carry, but as nobody fixed them for the 2.6.12 kernels, i bet they are broken. Furthermore, make sure to use the new powerpc64 64bit flavoured kernels, and not the 32bit you have been using above. Also, i belive kernel-installer is currently broken, so you really want to go to console 2, chroot to /target, install linux-image-2.6.12-1-powerpc64, and relaunch ybin, after having hand-updated the yaboot.conf or relaunched yaboot-installer. Hope this help, and keep us informed of your success or lake thereof. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
