Powerbook G4: Linux does not boot again

[Luca Padovani <lpadovan@cs.unibo.it>]

Hi everybody,

I'm quoting an old thread 'cause a similar thing just happened to me. I
can't boot Debian Linux anymore :-(
It started just after having used MacOSX for a couple of hours. After
that, Linux (kernel 2.4.21 ben2) doesn't boot, it just prints 15/20 lines
during startup and then the machine switches off.
The old kernel (2.4.18 ben1) goes a little further, but it hangs at some
point before it has finished starting up the services. The only thing I
was able to do was to get a root shell (the second time I try to boot the
old kernel fsck gives me the chance to get it) and have a look around. The
file system seems OK, I've also reinstalled the new kernel and re-run ybin
but nothing changed.

One thing that is in common with the problem Wolfgang had is that the time
is reset to january 1st 1970 every time I try to boot, don't know if this
matters.

Tried COMMAND+ALT+P+R with no luck, tried video=ofonly with both kernels
with no luck, no more ideas left.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, and if I missed any info that might
be useful please ask!

Thanks in advance,
-- luca