Re: installation success using 3.0.16 on iBook Dual USB / HOWTO

[Gordon Paynter <gordon.paynter@ucr.edu>]

This is a tardy followup to my own post to answer a couple of points
that other people have already answered, and to thank those people who
are actually fixing the problem - my hat goes off to you.


Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote:
> it doesn't really matter which partition you temporarily 
> bootstrap yaboot from, just so its not UFS.

It does matter if you are forced to reboot by a Kernel panic in
mac-fdisk after you have overwritten the partition with your old
kernel on and before you've downloaded a new kernel to boot with at
the next restart.


Michael Schmitz <schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> wrote:
> What did you do in mac-fdisk to get a kernel panic? What kernel
> version did you use?

This has been covered pretty comprehensively in the thread. I was
using the "current" woody debian-ppc distribution at 8/Nov/01.


Gordon