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Re: heavy problems installing woody on a brand new iBook



On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:20:45AM +0100, Philipp Schmidt wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> a few days ago I bought a new 12.1" iBook 600 to use it primary as linux
> machine, but during my various tries all i saw were kernel panics.
> 
> The Debian installer (from NetInstall CD 2002-02-15) claims the computer
> having no hard disk, sometimes i can run fdisk on console but when after
> writing down the partition layout the kernel panics like "access of bad
> area pc 021da64 lv c024a564 11tsk mac-fdisk/80". I also get cryptic
> error mesages when accessing the nic. My tties with the 2.4.18-bh0
> kernel resulted in an total system lockup when switching the console.

New hardware really needs the new-powermac flavor. Is that what you used?
If not, please try with the current version from a Debian mirror.

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|            Chris Tillman        tillman@voicetrak.com          |
|                   May the Source be with you                   |
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