kernel install problems on ibook 2.2 with sarge
Hi -
I hope someone here can tell me what might be wrong.
For several times already i have tried to install a new kernel after the
original install of the 2.6 kernel with Sarge. Because i read that the
pmu works with the 2.4 kernel i wanted to install that one. Because
previously the installation of a self-compiled kernel has failed in the
same way i went safe and just did
apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.27-power3-pmac
and rebooted. Now instead of booting the linux kernel i get the
following message:
"
Please wait, loading kernel...
Elf32 kernel loaded...
Loading ramdisk...
/pci@f2000000/mac-io@17/ata-4@1f000/disk@0.4,/boot/initrd.img :
No such file or directory
ramdisk load failed!
Apple Powerbook 4, ........
Welcome to Open Firmware .....
ok
>
"
When i now type ok <return> the system boots into linux with the 2.4
kernel. This time i used the kernel and headers from here:
http://penguinppc.org/~eb/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-powerpc/
because i read on this list that this kernel had the right debian
installer for the powerpc and the xfs filesystem. However, the xfs
filesystem does not seem to be the problem here.
I know from previous experience that the next kernel i will try to
install will just irrepairably break my system. I will first have to
make a fresh partition with the max osx disks, and then i can install
debian again, having wiped everything. This is the only thing that
worked for me. However, i will probably need to install another kernel
again because now i might have accidentally installed a woody kernel on
a sarge system..
I hope someone can help me. Many thanks in advance.
Mark de Vries.
here is some further info:
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\$more /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu : 745/755
temperature : 3-5 C (uncalibrated)
clock : 499MHz
revision : 51.17 (pvr 0008 3311)
bogomips : 996.14
machine : PowerBook4,1
motherboard : PowerBook4,1 PowerBook2,2 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power
Macintosh
detected as : 257 (iBook 2)
pmac flags : 0000000b
L2 cache : 256K unified
memory : 192MB
pmac-generation : NewWorld
--------------------------------------------
\$ ls -l /boot
total 16212
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35866 2003-12-01 07:31 config-2.4.23-newpmac
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40069 2004-10-03 12:15 config-2.6.8-powerpc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4800512 1976-04-01 10:15
initrd.img-2.6.8-powerpc
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24 1976-04-01 10:15 initrd.old ->
initrd.img-2.6.8-powerpc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 667271 2003-12-01 08:31
System.map-2.4.23-newpmac
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 942649 2004-10-03 13:13
System.map-2.6.8-powerpc
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22 2005-07-16 17:33 vmlinux ->
vmlinux-2.4.23-newpmac
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4513449 2003-12-01 08:31 vmlinux-2.4.23-newpmac
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3964695 2004-10-03 13:13 vmlinux-2.6.8-powerpc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1588880 2003-12-01 08:31
vmlinux.coff-2.4.23-newpmac
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21 1976-04-01 10:15 vmlinux.old ->
vmlinux-2.6.8-powerpc
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\$more /etc/yaboot.conf
boot=/dev/hda2
device=/pci@f2000000/mac-io@17/ata-4@1f000/disk@0:
partition=4
root=/dev/hda4
timeout=100
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
enablecdboot
image=/boot/vmlinux
label=Linux
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
image=/boot/vmlinux.old
label=old
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd.img.old
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\$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda4 9377040 3019908 5880804 34% /
tmpfs 95060 4 95056 1% /dev/shm
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