Re: About yabootconfig
Glad to hear you solved the problem! That's interesting that OS X
supports the ext2 filesystem, and good to know -- I was always under the
impressions that Mac OS and linux were mutually incompatible. And if
make-kpkg works for you, that's even better. For some reason every time
I've tried to use make-kpkg I've ended up with dependency failures, but
perhaps I just didn't try hard enough.
One more note -- you said your keyboard failed after using the new
kernel? This actually happened to me this week, apparently the problem
for me was that I selected "Support for ADB raw keycodes = YES". If you
select 'NO' for this and recompile, you should have your keyboard back.
And you're right -- apt-get with debian sid is a dangerous proposition
sometimes... but how else can I get my shiny KDE 3 desktop?? :)
best,
Nick
>
> Today I had lost keyboard use when in Linux.
> I went back into OSX by holding pressed the X on my keyboard during
> reboot and was able to cancel the /vmlinux symlink and rename the
> /vmlinux.old into /vmlinux. This was possible as I had direct access to
> my ext2 Linux partition from OSX thanks to a very useful fs utility
> that works under OSX and enables mounting on the finder desktop a ext2
> partition.
>
> As for the remaining part of your post, I think make-kpkg works just
> great: long life to it!
> If I where you, I would trust more on the Debian (stable) distribution
> and the make-kpkg command as after all it doesn't really change much in
> your installation. :-))
> Chances are that apt-get sometime is much more dangerous especially
> when it comes to libraries and other important packages coming from
> unstable or testing.
>
> But, of course, this is my personal opinion as I should always keep in
> mind that:
> "when the going gets tough...."
>
> Happy computing!
>
> Pieter
>
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