Re: Linux does not boot after a MacOSX upgrade

[Michael Lake <mikel@speleonics.com.au>]

Ah ha ...

I have got it booted from CD1 and now have a shell running. I came 
across a post to this newsgroup
    * Subject: Debian not booting after OSX (re)install.
    * From: Philippe Sainte-Marie <psm@wooe.org>
    * Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:17:55 +0200
<quote>
	"I just reinstalled my Mac OS X a few days ago and today
	i tried to boot into Debian.
	As always after a osx reinstall, i have to manually
	boot into OF and then enter into the yaboot located in the
	bootstrap: boot hd:X,yaboot
	it doæs load yaboot correctly, then i select my kernel image
	it begins to load and then stop after the:
	Welcome to Linux, kernel 2.4.21-ben2
	and then stops the machine (shutdown) after:
	'openpic: exit'
	That kernel was just working fine a week ago.
	Any hints?
<end quote>

There were no hints for him alas :-(

It looks like he may have had the same prob I am having but that was 
back in July.

Mike Lake wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I need a bit of guidance in getting a Ti PowerBook booting.
> Today I allowed Apple to upgrade the OSX on my machine and now Linux
> does not boot. This may be a problem wiht the just released today 40MB
> patches so all take care.
>
> The machine is a Ti Powerbook running Debian stable. The Linux is on
> partition 11 and is from what I remember ithe kernel is just vmlinuz either in / or
> /boot. I boot with yaboot 1.3.6 and from the prompt Linux is the
> default. MacOSX is an option.
>
> It was working fine then oday I did an OSX update. OSX works fine still
> (except M$ Explorer now crashes but that is no loss) but when I go to
> boot linux this is what happens.
>
> The first stage boot loader works and I get ...
> boot: l    <--- I hit X for MaxOSX and it works OK and into OSX
>            < I hit l or linux single and I get...
>
> second stage boot loader starts
> Welcome to yaboot 1.3.6
> boot:    <--- wait
>
> The kernel starts to boot 
> Welcome to Linux kernel 2.4.20
> ......etc etc
>
> then it fails at the text only a few lines down..
> openpic spurious
> openpic exit
>
> The laptop then shuts down
>
> This suggests that the bootloader is ok but that the kernel has been
> clobbered. 
> I then tried booting from a debian boot CD (CD number 1) and
> it does not boot with either the 'install' or the 'install-safe' images.
>
> I googled for this openpic error but I get refs to where ppl had kernel
> errors after trying a new kernel and had this problem. I havent 
> compiled a new kernel just had an OSX upgrade.
>
>
> Mike



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Mike Lake
Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical.