Bug#382129: daily wont boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

I should have added that sarge boots and runs just fine on this  
machine with BootX.


On Aug 9, 2006, at 2:05 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:

> Package: installation-reports
>
> kernel and initrd from latest daily refuses to boot on OldWorld  
> beige G3 Mac
>
> Hardware used is
> 	PowerMac G3 (Gossamer)
> this is an OldWorld powerpc Macintosh
>
> Boot loader used is
> 	MacOS-9.2 with the BootX extension.
>
> Kernel version used is
> 	2.6.16-2-powerpc (Debian 2.6.16-17) (waldu@debian.org)...
> taken directly from the businesscard daily install CD
>
> The boot process gets only a small ways in and freezes
>
> The screen contains about half a screen worth of kernel startup  
> messages starting with
>
> > Total Memory = 384MB; using 1024kB for hash table (at cff00000)
> > Linux version 2.6.16-2-powerpc (Debian 2.6.16-17)  
> > (waldu@debian.org) (gcc version...
> > #1 Sat Jul 15 17:39:41 CEST 2006
>
> and so on... ending with
>
> > GMT Delta read from XPRAM: 60 minutes, DST: on
> > time_init: decrementer frequency = 16.708016 MHz
> > time_init: processor frequency   = 200.690000 MHz
> >
> > MMU:exit
>
>
> then it hangs.
>
> I can provide more details if necessary, but obviously, there are  
> no log files.
>
>
> Rick
>
>
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