Re: Recommendations for trying etch-m68k

[Joel Ewy <jcewy@swbell.net>]

Finn Thain wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Brian Morris wrote:
> ...
>> I remember having a problem with my disk that the 630 would not shut 
>> down, rather it would hang, and i had to reboot into macos. that you 
>> fixed in the 2.6.20 kernel, that was broken in the 2.6.18.
>>     
>
> You are right. I forgot about that -- one patch was revised. Avoid 2.6.18 
> on macs with IDE and ethernet.
> ...
>   

Thanks for the heads up on that.  When I get some spare time I'll try
another reboot with the 2.6.18 floppy to see if I can get it to work
with a Linux keymap and then I'll try to make an EMILE boot disk for
2.6.20 before I attempt a dist-upgrade.

JCE