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Re: Choosing which kernel tree to use



"Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > > I've currently got 2.4.7 from mvista, and the kerboard is hosed
> >
> > That's because you didn't do as suggested in the debconf warning on the
> > console-* upgrade.
> 
> I was in the process of rebuilding the kernel I got a machine check.  Now
> when I boot, the network interfaces don't come up because fsck fails.
> It's a bit of a pickle.

Sorry for that. Might be a good idea to stress the kernel argument more in the
debconf warning.

To get out of this, type keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1 after the label name
at the yaboot prompt, then add it ASAP to yaboot.conf and then rebuild the
kernel with ADB keycodes disabled.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)    \   Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast   \        XFree86 and DRI project member



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