Re: Power Mac 6100/66

[Ernest Demaret <ernest.demaret@infinity-box.nl>]

Op 17-sep-05 om 0:25 heeft Gunther Furtado het volgende geschreven:
> Hi,
>
> > BTW, are you sure your machien is nubus ? What does /proc/cpuinfo tell you ? Friendly, Sven Luther 
>
> Yes it is:
>
> rverde:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor       : 0
> cpu             : 603
> revision        : 3.2 (pvr 0003 0302)
> bogomips        : 49.76
> machine         : PowerMac,NuBus
> motherboard     : Performa MacRISC
> detected as     : 0 (<NULL>)
> pmac flags      : 00000000
> memory          : 40MB
> pmac-generation : NuBus
>
> > You need to copy /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-nubus to your HFS partition, name it
> > Mach kernel, and boot it with mklinux.
> >
> > Friendly,
> >
> > Sven Luther
> I followed your instructions and the booting process went OK until it entered runlevel 2 and loaded all services but froze just after the next line:
>
> Starting periodic command scheduler: cron.
>
> and nothing happens after that.
>
> The good thig is: the box was doing a good job routing the other machines in my LAN (MacOS, XP and Debian) implying that at list iptables was functioning.
> But I can't login...
> Can I do anything to solve this, it's been a long time since I did #apt-get dist-upgrade... can this be the problem?
I filed a bugreport on the same kernel. When I installed the kernel it ended in a loop after starting all processes and daemons. Maybe this could have been caused by the same bug? I did the installation on a 8100/110 (has a PPC 601 processor).
The bugnumber: 328522.

Regards,

Ernest Demaret