On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:56:41PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > I get an answer for my questions on the debian users list: > > <quote> > Yes, udev in Wheezy requires a kernel >= 2.6.32 with the accept4(2) > syscall. At least one year ago, the Squeeze kernel did not provide this > particular syscall on powerpc (it does on x86 though), and on my (purely > virtual) machine udev entered an infinite loop in the initramfs. > > So before you upgrade your userland, I'd strongly recommend that you get > hold of a newer kernel first, e.g. from squeeze-backports. How to boot > it - I don't know. > </quote> > > So I expect here advices how to go?
Add to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports main Then do: apt-get update apt-get install linux-image-whatever-makes-sense Options are: llinux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-powerpc - Linux 3.2 for uniprocessor 32-bit PowerPC linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-powerpc-smp - Linux 3.2 for multiprocessor 32-bit PowerPC linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-powerpc64 - Linux 3.2 for 64-bit PowerPC -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130524213013.gk11...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
