Re: kernel 2.6.8 and 2.6.12 fail to boot on blue&white G3
On Friday 28 October 2005 14:59, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 02:03:01PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> > Sven, do you know if this bug is fixed by 2.6.14-xxx? I guess I
> > could drag out my system to test it this weekend, if necessary..
>
> No idea, 2.6.14 is in NEW and 2.6.14-rc5 in experimental, just test
> them, and file a bug report if the problem persists.
>
> Ah, ... wait,
>
> Well, 2.6.14 uses yaird or initramfs-tools, none of which are as
> broken as initrd-tools, and thus will not try modprobing random ide
> drivers, and you should not have this problem.
It's not a problem of "random" IDE drivers, cmd64x is the IDE driver
necessary for the B&W G3's onboard IDE. I'll try this out this
weekend.
Pat
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