Re: booting 2.6.16-20060523 on my Macintosh Quadra 700
On Thu, 25 May 2006, Alex Teclo wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying the new kernel which is at
> http://people.debian.org/~cts/debian-m68k/linux-image/experimental/linux-image-2.6.16-2-mac_2.6.16-15_m68k.deb
>
> At the very first attempt, I got "/dev/sda7 has gone 36417 days without
> being checked, check forced.", and fsck checks sda7. Then the same thing
> for the three other filesystems with 36446 days instead of 36417.
This is probably due to the RTC not working -- another known problem on
macs.
Basically, the kernel has no idea what the time is at boot. But once you
set the time, it should keep time until you shutdown. The best way around
the fsck problem is to boot a 2.2 kernel and disable timestamp based fsck
on each filesystem with
tune2fs -i 0 /dev/sdaN
then (given a working NIC), configure ntp so as to set the time at boot.
> At the second attempt, there were to problems:
> 1) the initialization of the network adapter failed. But I think this is
> a "known issue" since someone said there wasn't support for the sonic
> ethernet in this kernel.
Yep.
> 2) the /dev/ttyS* devices are initialized and then, nothing... Look at
> this picture:
> http://www.geocities.com/alexteclo/quadra700/2_6_16_20060523/007.jpg
I can't explain that hang...
> At the third attempt, I got "/dev/sda7 has gone 49710 days without being
> checked, check forced.", and fsck checks sda7. Then the same thing for
> the three other filesystems with 49710 days too. At around 50% of
> checking the last filesystem (/home), I got a crash, look at:
> http://www.geocities.com/alexteclo/quadra700/2_6_16_20060523/008.jpg
Like many of your earlier crashes (those that died in an interrupt handler
with macii_interrupt in the trace) this crash looks an awful lot like the
ADB issue.
> At the fourth attempt, yet another error:
> http://www.geocities.com/alexteclo/quadra700/2_6_16_20060523/009.jpg
Can't explain that hang either. I'll try to reproduce it on the weekend.
-f
> Any help would be appreciated
>
> Cheers,
> Alex
>
>
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