Re: iMac with 2.6 does not see keyboard

2004-10-08 Thread Sebastian Tennant
On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:08:26 +0200, Mario Frasca wrote: > > so I managed to install the new 2.6.8 kernel and boot it. I > understand that this is more modular, or maybe I should say > module oriented, so I have to load explicitly ethernet (or put > it into /etc/modules). > > my problem is that

Re: woody to sarge - where is the new kernel?

2004-10-04 Thread Sebastian Tennant
On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 19:11:00 +0200, Mario Frasca wrote: > Sebastian Tennant wrote: >>>my system does not boot any more from hd. I have to use cd1 from the >>>woody distribution and then tell the booter to load 'hd:4'. [...] >>>ofpath: WARNING: Your kern

Re: woody to sarge - where is the new kernel?

2004-10-03 Thread Sebastian Tennant
> my system does not boot any more from hd. I have to use cd1 from the > woody distribution and then tell the booter to load 'hd:4'. >[...] > ofpath: WARNING: Your kernel is too old for proper support, device may > be innaccurate. Had this problem myself. The latest yaboot only works with the mo

Re: woody to sarge - where is the new kernel?

2004-10-03 Thread Sebastian Tennant
> my system does not boot any more from hd. I have to use cd1 from the > woody distribution and then tell the booter to load 'hd:4'. >[...] > ofpath: WARNING: Your kernel is too old for proper support, device may > be innaccurate. 1. Downgrade to the 'proposed-updates' version of the yaboot pack

Re: Apt-installed kernel-image-2.6.8-power4 will not boot a PowerMac G4!!

2004-09-29 Thread Sebastian Tennant
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:00:16 +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sebastian Tennant writes: > >> No keyboard. Not even garbage. Cannot login :-/ > > May I venture the guess that you have a USB keyboard? Support for > those is modular, so you must make sur

Re: Apt-installed kernel-image-2.6.8-power4 will not boot a PowerMac G4!!

2004-09-29 Thread Sebastian Tennant
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 19:14:28 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (29/09/04 18:11), Sebastian Tennant wrote: >> I've been tracking testing with Ethan Benson's stable-ish 2.4.18-newpmac for >> several months now and discovered quite early on that any version of yaboot >>

Apt-installed kernel-image-2.6.8-power4 will not boot a PowerMac G4!!

2004-09-29 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Nor would a self-compiled custom 2.6.6 stock Debian source! I've been tracking testing with Ethan Benson's stable-ish 2.4.18-newpmac for several months now and discovered quite early on that any version of yaboot newer than the proposed-update version, (I can't access the actual version number at

Problems with 2.6.6 custom kernel and Open Firmware

2004-09-27 Thread Sebastian Tennant
After selecting its label in yaboot stage 2, my self-compiled 2.6.6 kernel, (gcc-2.95, make-kpkg, dpkg -i, based almost entirely on the config from my stable 2.4.18 kernel), hangs in Open Firmware with the following message: "...ok opening display /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ATY,BlueStoneParent,

Re: System clock

2004-07-20 Thread Sebastian Tennant
>>>My system clock is losing about 15 minutes a week. Any ideas why this >>>might be? A battery perhaps? Or is it normal? If I remember >>>rightly OSX uses some sort of network time server to set the system >>>clock. Is there an equivalent GNU/Linux compatible service out there? >> >>ntpdate

System clock

2004-07-20 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi all, My system clock is losing about 15 minutes a week. Any ideas why this might be? A battery perhaps? Or is it normal? If I remember rightly OSX uses some sort of network time server to set the system clock. Is there an equivalent GNU/Linux compatible service out there? sebyte -

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Urgent! Yaboot died, how to rescue?

2004-07-10 Thread Sebastian Tennant
> Thank you thank you thank you!!! > > My mac is back in action and kde is purring... > > :-) > > Thanks again guys! > > Sean Pleased to hear you're back up and running. Perhaps you can explain initrd kernel images to me one day :-) sebyte

Re: Urgent! Yaboot died, how to rescue?

2004-07-10 Thread Sebastian Tennant
> Thanks so much for your help Sebyte (and Colin). Unfortunately, neither > method seems to work for me. Colin's method looks like it's gonna work > but then panics for some reason. Sebyte's method looks good up until I > try to mount my filesystem --- there's nothing useful in /dev

Re: ISO or Netinst?

2004-07-06 Thread Sebastian Tennant
I've got a command-line only copy of Yellow Dog running on my iBook2004. I understand that you've got to hold C when booting to boot from the CD, but the Woody CD wont work, so should I go ahead and download all of the main-dist ISOs, or will they not boot either? Tom If I were

Re: quik 2.0 killed my beige G3

2004-07-03 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hello ! I was running "testing" on my beige G3 with kernel 2.6.6. I used a little Partition with MacOS 9.1 on it to boot with BootX into Linux. A few days ago I did what I always do "apt-get update, apt-get upgrade" and then there was the final question about quik and if it shou

Re: Install Sarge on a Ibook ?

2004-02-23 Thread Sebastian Tennant
After you're done please file an installer report, there haven't been enough people testing the PPC port. I've successfully installed Debian using the debian-sarge-netinst.iso installer on an Apple G4. I'd be happy to file an installer report. Could you post a link and/or describe how you do