hello luca... * Luca Telloli <lucat@libero.it> [2003-12-21 20:57 +0100]: > I got an iBook G4 a few days ago and I'm trying to install a Debian > GNU/Linux on this machine. The base installation was ok, but now I'm > getting troubles with the compilation of a new full-options kernel for > this machine. For this purpose I'm obviously using a > benh-kernel-version. > With a 2.4.x family the result is a blank console on boot (but the > framebuffer is in the kernel), with the 2.6 family the result is an > unmountable root device (but the support for chipset/filesystem is in my > kernel!); so at this time any attempt to run X is just dreaming :) > perhaps there's a silly mistake somewhere because I heard about running > machine with self-compiled kernel, anyway if someone could post > somewhere a .config (indicating the kernel family) for a running iBook > G4 machine or much better a debian package with a running kernel-image > it would a very good news for me: I'm not a good nerd :) but I'd like to > use a Debian distro anyway :) i just uploaded my kernel which i made for my alu powerbook 15": http://kodeaffe.de/kernel/kernel-image-2.6.0-ben1_20031218_powerpc.deb have fun, sebastian -- ::: .O. ::: ..O ::: OOO ::: lynx -source http://www.kodeaffe.de/shensche.pub | gpg --import
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