On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 03:35:17PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Sep 16, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Sven Luther wrote: > > >On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 09:50:03AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > >>On Saturday 16 September 2006 09:09, Rick Thomas wrote: > >>>Is there someone out there who will work with me to get a kernel > >>>that > >>>boots to run debian-installer on my beige G3 PowerMac (OldWorld) > >>>machine? > >> > >>I'd like to see that happen. > >> > >>>If not, I think it may be time to withdraw OldWorld PowerMacs from > >>>the list of hardware supported by the Debian Installer. > >> > >>Note that as I understand there are also problems booting the kernel > >>outside the installer (i.e. just upgrading an installed system), this > >>does not seem to be a Debian Installer issue, but rather a powerpc > >>kernel > >>or kernel configuration issue. > > > >Its actually a problem with the ramdisk generators and/or > >bootloaders, not the > >kernel proper. > > Actually, from the symptoms I'm seeing, it may not be getting far > enough to encounter ramdisk problems. (Not to say there are no such > ramdisk problems, just that what I'm seeing is not diagnostic for > them.) I gave fairly detailed notes in the previous bug report, > Bug#382129. Let me know if you want more information. > > If Sven is right, that leaves bootloaders.
Are you using quik or bootx ? This patch : http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6cdd2bdfb9e2449f1c8a0f729cdf9cfd733dd63f [POWERPC] Fix BootX booting with an initrd The bootx_init.c trampoline didn't properly add the ramdisk to the "reserve map" (list of reserved areas of memory), thus causing all sorts of failures when using BootX with an initrd. Also fixes a possible problem if the ramdisk is located before the device-tree passed by BootX. Might be of interest to solve this problem, which is why i suggested trying the latest 2.6.18-rc kernel before. Please try and provide feedback. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
