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 sure it gets loaded, either by > addi

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

2004-09-29 Thread Jens Schmalzing
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 sure it gets loaded, either by adding it manually to /etc/modules or /etc/mkinitrd/modules, or by installing a h

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 >> newer than the proposed-update

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

2004-09-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/09/04 18:11), Sebastian Tennant wrote: > 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-updat

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

2004-09-29 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, > Apt-installed kernel-image-2.6.8-power4 will not boot a PowerMac G4!! The -power4 flavour is for machines with POWER4 processors, such as the IBM pSeries and the Apple PowerMac G5. On a PowerMac G4, you need -powerpc. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe

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