Re: Woody modules
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:14:38PM -0400, Fred Heitkamp wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Chris Tillman wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:08:23AM -0400, Fred Heitkamp wrote:
> > >
> >
> > Hmmm... You could burn a CD with your kernel substituted for the
> > linux.bin file in the install/new-powermac folder; I think that's what
> > you were suggesting.
> >
> >
> > Something like:
> >
> > boot: hd:6,/vmlinux initrd=cd:,/install/new-powermac/root.bin initrd-size=8192
> >
> > I have no idea if using an OF path for initrd will actually work.
>
> OK. Just for reference. In order to boot with my SCSI card
> I have to type from OF:
> boot /pci@f2000000/ATTO,ExpressPCIProUL366@12/@6:8,yaboot
> (since my spare kernels and a yaboot is on my OS 9 partition.)
>
> In my yaboot.conf I have:
> image=vmlinux-2.4.21-pre2
> label=ram-cd
> device=/pci@f2000000/ATTO,ExpressPCIProUL366@12/@6:
> partition=8
> initrd=cd:,/install/powermac/root.bin
> initrd-size=8192
> append="video=ofonly devfs=nomount"
>
> The root.bin is on the Woody Disk.
> That seemed to work. I see the CD being accessed and
> the choose language screen comes up, however, my
> keyboard is still not working. What possibly could
> have happened? It was working fine before the
> apt-get upgrade and the keyboard works fine with
> OS X, OS 9, and the Debian Woody installer as
> well (with the install24 kernel.) My kernel must
> not be compatible with the root.bin of the Woody
> disk.
The root.bin is the same when you use the standard Woody
kernel to boot the installer, so it sounds like the kernel
itself isn't playing nice with the keyboard.
If you happened to use aptitude to do the upgrade, there
is a log in /var/log.
I'm tempted to mention the recent libc6 breakage, but I don't see how
that could affect you when you're booting root.bin. Also the symptoms
were errors during the init that prevented it from booting at all.
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