Re: 12'' Aluminium G4 PowerBook dilemma

[Emmanuel Galatoulas <galas@tee.gr>]

Guy Yasko wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Linux kernels are still not booting on my 12" G4 1.5GHz Powerbook 6,8.
> To recap the situation, the kernels I've tried to boot haven't gone
> past "setup_arch:bootmem" since 2.6.11.12, which works fine.  2.6.12
> through 2.6.15-rc1 do not.  I've been trying various .configs,
> including those from people with the very same model who, oddly
> enough, are running 2.6.1[2-5] kernels.  I've also tried precompiled,
> kernels from the newer distribution CDs (gentoo 2005.1, slackintosh
> 10.2, and a debian kernel or two) but these also stop early in the
> boot process. 
>
> Ordinarily, I wouldn't bother so much with having the latest kernel
> version, but I'd like to be able to suspend to disk.  Any suggestions,
> hints, or advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> g.y.
>
>  
exactly the same here!!!!
i have got the very same model (Powerbook 6,8)
since June and I have not been able to boot
anything newer than 2.6.11. Even precompiled kernels do not boot
and I very regret about that because  I have not been able to boot
the testing debian-installer isos.
Ubuntu kernels did not help either!

i tried the IRC at an early stage but to no avail. It is really 
disappointing
since without a compiled kernel I cannot use the patches to
enable sound or the trackpad and so on and so on!

any help or hints would be really great!!!

best regards

Emmanuel Galatoulas