On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:37:32AM -0500, James Stallings II wrote: > Hello List! > > I'm having some issues with my Mac and 3.1r2 Sarge
Since your mac is a PowerPC-based mac, it won't work with Debian/m68k, which can be used on m68k-based macintoshes only, i.e., those made before 1995 or so. I set a Cc to debian-powerpc. Please followup there. > The install goes swimmingly well, and then during the intial reboot, > the system probes for devices, tries to load an aic driver for the > unused onboard adaptec controller, and gives us a kernel oops. > > My strategy to fix this is to use some sort of rescue disk, boot into > it, mount the system partition, fix up the modprobe config stuff so it > don't probe low-level scsi, and get on with life. > > I have a considerable amount of linux experience, but I confess that > its all been on the pc up till now, and I've been unable to make > enough sense of the pre-boot environment to successfully mount the > system partition. > > Interestingly enough, OSX does not load a driver for the adaptec > either, SCSI under 'About this Mac' shows 'No information found'. > > Any direction on any of these points by someone more 'in-the-know' > would be highly appreciated. > > Cheers, > James > > Hardware Overview: > > Machine Model: Power Mac G4 > CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (3.3) > Number Of CPUs: 2 > CPU Speed: 1.25 GHz > L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB > L3 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB > Memory: 1 GB > Bus Speed: 167 MHz > Boot ROM Version: 4.6.0f1 > Serial Number: RM349ZNAN1X -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
