Re: trying to clean up a bit with the questions concerning 'Initialize...'
Hello Chris
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>> *Adam Di Carlo said:*
>>
>>>> After initializing the swap partition, it is not possible to execute
>>>> the point "Initialize a Linux Partition". After selecting this point
>>>> in the menu, the screen goes1
>>> black, and the installer system
>>>> restarts!
>>>
>>> Isn't this caused by my build with bad versions of pmac-fdisk and
>>> other *fdisk packages?
>>
>> No idea!
>
> No Adam made the same mistake I did, you're not messing with mac-fdisk at
> this point.
>
>> > Please try the version 3.0.21.0.1, now available at
>> > <URL:#http://people.debian.org/~aph/boot-floppies-woody/disks-powerpc/current/#>.
>>
>> I am going to try this!
Sorry, I couldn't do this yet, every 5 minutes, my network connection goes
down.. and it's not a modem!
>> Did I forget anything?
>
> Only that I said I thought it had been fixed. Let me 'splain a little
> more about that. I was seeing dbootstrap restart at the point during
> kernel install when it mounted a partition, in December I think. There
> were several bugs at the time about it, IIRC.
>
> Anyway, I made a bunch of changes in the code that mounts and unmounts
> partitions, and cleaned that problem up. I think my initial assumption,
> that you were seeing the same problem, was wrong.
I understand.
> I just had an inspiration. Someone put in debugging code to help when
> we get segfault problems. It won't show the registers for your arch,
> but it will at least give a backtrace which may prove helpful to
> someone around here.
>
> The way you activate it, is add debug to your boot arguments. It's
> supposed to give you a backtrace on stderr. Can you try that with
> the troublesome kernel?
Ok, I'll do this tonight! I think debug=mem would be the right thing for my
machine (and afterwards get the log out of the ram under AmigaOS)?
--
Thanks for your help, I hope I can get something useful out of the kernel,
Andi
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