Re: Fwd: Macintosh Quadra 950 Not Booting
On Sat, 8 Aug 2015, Greg Andrzejewski wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Someone suggested (off-list) that you should remove any expansion
> > cards, which is always good advice when troubleshooting an early
> > crash.
> >
> > E.g. Linux doesn't have support for the WGS 95 PDS card fitted to some
> > Quadra 950 machines (unfortunately). But if that was your problem, I'd
> > expect 2.6.29 would not boot either.
> >
> Yeah, there's nothing installed in any of the machines. Judging by
> software left on the drive, the previous owner must have kept the FWB
> Jackhammer cards. Been meaning to email and inquire as to what his plans
> are for them.
OK.
>
> > Where did you find the 2.6.29 kernel binary? If it is a mainline
> > kernel, we may be able to solve this with git bisection.
> >
> > --
> >
> https://people.debian.org/~smarenka/d-i/m68k/images/daily/kernels/vmlinuz-2.6.29-2-mac
> Boot with Penguin to no root filesystem panic.
Well, I guess we'll have to bisect from there.
--
>
> -Greg
>
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