Re: Cant start from CD

2003-12-25 Thread Matthias Kirschner
Hi Simon i have installed it with the discription here: http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~schmidtm/apple/powerbook.en.php Some other stuff i described on: http://www.englishbookshop.de/difficulties/ibook/ The Boot CD's haven't worked for me too. The aren't already booting. Bye Matze pgp6yPpe

Re: 2.6.0-ben1 : Badness in local_bh_enable at kernel/softirq.c:121

2003-12-25 Thread Kiko Piris
On 21/12/2003 at 10:08, Kiko Piris wrote: > While waiting for usb-serial to be fixed, Paul Mackerras posted this > patch against ppp_async on the lkml just some hours ago [*]. > > I applied it to 2.6.0-ben1 and everything seems to work fine right now. [...] > [*] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=l

Re: kernel compile troubles with current 2.4 and 2.6

2003-12-25 Thread Nathanael Hasbrouck
On Monday 22 December 2003 21:30, Nathanael Hasbrouck wrote: > On Monday 22 December 2003 01:18, sloopym wrote: > > to talk to him about it (among other things...which also reminds me, > > dont add support for powermacintosh floppy drives... it wont compile > > then either... it is a known bug...)

CD-ROM hardware failures on 2.4.23-pre5-ben0

2003-12-25 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Basically, the kernel routinely tries to access the CD to check something. This is progressively wearing down the drive, as there is often nothing to be mounted (drive empty) yet the kernel keeps on trying to spin the drive up. This problem also existed on previous kernels. Lately, this drive we