Re: Kernel hangs during boot on PowerBook G4 17 1GHz

2003-12-15 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Dec 15, 2003, at 10:16 AM, Michael Schmitz wrote: fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hda4 /dev/hda4: The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or

Re: Kernel hangs during boot on PowerBook G4 17 1GHz

2003-12-15 Thread Michael Schmitz
> fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hda4 > /dev/hda4: > The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 > filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 > filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock >

Re: Kernel hangs during boot on PowerBook G4 17 1GHz

2003-12-12 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Dec 11, 2003, at 1:03 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Thanks for taking the time to reply. Yes, you nailed it; an nVidia-based 17" albook. I briefly got past the issue I had posted and experienced three different types of segmentation faults and weird hangs. Is there another

Re: Kernel hangs during boot on PowerBook G4 17 1GHz

2003-12-11 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Dec 11, 2003, at 1:03 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Thanks for taking the time to reply. Yes, you nailed it; an nVidia-based 17" albook. I briefly got past the issue I had posted and experienced three different types of segmentation faults and weird hangs. Is there another

Re: Kernel hangs during boot on PowerBook G4 17 1GHz

2003-12-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Thanks for taking the time to reply. Yes, you nailed it; an > nVidia-based 17" albook. I briefly got past the issue I had posted and > experienced three different types of segmentation faults and weird > hangs. Is there another kernel version I should try, or am I doomed > with this

Re: Kernel hangs during boot on PowerBook G4 17 1GHz

2003-12-10 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Dec 10, 2003, at 6:02 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 15:08, Barry Hawkins wrote: List, I have been trying to get a 2.4.23(pre5_benh?) kernel up and running on a PowerBook G4 17". Currently I can get through the following steps without issue: Is this a fi

Re: Kernel hangs during boot on PowerBook G4 17 1GHz

2003-12-10 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 15:08, Barry Hawkins wrote: > List, > I have been trying to get a 2.4.23(pre5_benh?) kernel up and running > on a PowerBook G4 17". Currently I can get through the following steps > without issue: Is this a first rev (nVidia based) 17" albook ? If yes, then there is

Re: Kernel hangs during boot on PowerBook G4 17 1GHz

2003-12-10 Thread Brad Boyer
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 04:05:23PM -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote: > Through a series of tests, I was able to advance beyond the hangup just > after the line "hub.c: new USB device 10:1a.0-1, assigned address 2" in > the boot process. However, I am not sure that it indicates progress. > By removin

Re: Kernel hangs during boot on PowerBook G4 17 1GHz

2003-12-10 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Dec 10, 2003, at 4:09 PM, David Pye wrote: Hi Barry, The error you have says /dev/hda4 DOES NOT EXIST. fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hda4 This *might* be because under filesystem support in kernel config, you selected devfs... David [...] Through a serie

Re: Kernel hangs during boot on PowerBook G4 17 1GHz

2003-12-10 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Dec 10, 2003, at 8:39 AM, Barry Hawkins wrote: On Dec 10, 2003, at 4:09 AM, Diana Galletly wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Barry Hawkins wrote: So, if anyone has any suggestions, or even better if you already have a great kernel config file for a 17" PowerBook G4 1GHz, feel free to share.

Re: Kernel hangs during boot on PowerBook G4 17 1GHz

2003-12-10 Thread Diana Galletly
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Barry Hawkins wrote: > I still think my issue is strongly tied to my ignorance as to what I > am compiling into the kernel, but I just noticed the following snippet > on the page titled Debian GNU/Linux -- PowerPC Port > (http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/): If I were

Re: Kernel hangs during boot on PowerBook G4 17 1GHz

2003-12-10 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Dec 10, 2003, at 4:09 AM, Diana Galletly wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Barry Hawkins wrote: So, if anyone has any suggestions, or even better if you already have a great kernel config file for a 17" PowerBook G4 1GHz, feel free to share. Total shot in the dark -- but does 2.4.22 work

Re: Kernel hangs during boot on PowerBook G4 17 1GHz

2003-12-10 Thread Diana Galletly
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Barry Hawkins wrote: > So, if anyone has any suggestions, or even better if you already have > a great kernel config file for a 17" PowerBook G4 1GHz, feel free to > share. Total shot in the dark -- but does 2.4.22 work fine? I've spent most of the last few days with an

Kernel hangs during boot on PowerBook G4 17 1GHz

2003-12-09 Thread Barry Hawkins
List, I have been trying to get a 2.4.23(pre5_benh?) kernel up and running on a PowerBook G4 17". Currently I can get through the following steps without issue: make clean make menuconfig make dep make-kpkg --revision benh.1 kernel-image cd ..; dpkg -i *.deb However, upon reboot, I