On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:02:06AM +0200, Karl-Heinz Haag wrote: > Quoting Ethan Benson (erbenson@alaska.net): > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 04:18:00AM +0200, Karl-Heinz Haag wrote: > > > > if you have a newworld your best way to fix that right now is: > > > > apt-get --purge remove quik > okay > > > you should use make-kpkg from the kernel-package to build a kernel > > .deb its much simpler and straighforward then all of this. > I'll do so. > I suppose this home-brewn kernel image will not ask whether activating a > boot block with 'quik' as the image did I fetched with apt-get yesterday... it will if you have quik installed. --purge quik to get rid of that. whenver bugs.debian.org comes back ill file a bug asking to have that at least turned off for newworlds. we will see about ybin stuff instead. > All clear to me so far. > Next question: Creating a boot 'fallback' to the new kernel? > > On i386 you can stop the lilo bootup by pressing the 'shift' key, and > 'Tab' shows boot alternatives you created in /etc/lilo.conf. With this > you can boot different Linux kernel images and other OS on the HDD. same with yaboot: image=/vmlinux.old label=linux.old root=/dev/whatever read-only there is no `prompt' keyword in yaboot, thats implicit. set timeout=50 or 100 whatever you want, as with lilo its in tenths of seconds. > How enabling to boot the new kernel by default and -by choice- elder > ones as well? The new one could be broken or bad configured.... > My situation now is that I'm booting into Debian via OF: > boot hd:9,yaboot you should not be booting that way. remove nonvram from your /etc/yaboot.conf and you should boot right into yaboot without manual and dangerous OF fsckage. > Where can I find some stuff to read about that besides man yaboot/ybin? the man pages are very good in sid's yaboot, there is also http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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