Bug#328242: linux-image-2.6.12-1-powerpc64: This kernel does not boot on Mac G5s (7, 2 and 7, 3). It does not get past the first screen.

[Michal <michal@auf.net>]

Package: linux-image-2.6.12-1-powerpc64
Version: 2.6.12-6
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

Both on 7,2 and 7,3 powermacs, these kernels just hang past the first page. I have not copied the msgs by hand, but can do so if necessary.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-power4-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.12-1-powerpc64 depends on:
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2.1  The GNU core utilities
ii  initrd-tools                  0.1.82     tools to create initrd image for p
ii  module-init-tools             3.2-pre8-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

linux-image-2.6.12-1-powerpc64 recommends no packages.