Hello, all! I just upgraded my old Power Macintosh 7500 to have a Sonnet Crescendo/PCI G4 Processor Upgrade Card. The Mac was a dual boot Mac OS 8.6 / Debian Linux "Sarge" box. The guy who installed the upgrade card had to run an installer off a floppy for Mac OS and there is a Sonnet Extension in the Extensions folder. Mac OS runs spiffy.
The problem is Debian won't boot at all; I just get a black screen. I have BootX set up to load a 2.6.8 kernel (overwrote the exact name of the kernel); I'm guessing that the kernel is the problem. It probably only works for a 601 processor. I had the guy throw out the 601 processor, so going back temporarily isn't an option. I am having a devil of a time getting the Old World Mac booted to use the Etch Install CD. (I am really interested in upgrading to Etch. There is nothing on the Linux parition I care about saving.) Floppy booting doesn't work, probably because of the Sonnet Extension. Etch doesn't include Ramdisk/Kernel images to use with BootX. >From my previous posting on 10/29/2006, it appears that people have had >success booting into Sarge with a Sonnet card. So, if someone would post with a kernel that allows me to boot into Sarge with the Sonnet card and from where to download the kernel, I should be able to handle upgrading to Etch by myself at that point. Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide. Sincerely, -- Jeffrey Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "The weed of crime bears bitter fruit; crime does NOT pay! The Shadow knows!" - _The Shadow_ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
