Etch on old world with 2.5.15-1 and Quik
well i tried this, upgrade from etch (removing the 2.6.16-2 that
never i could boot). it booted with quik, surprise tho not with bootx.
(just for reference :powerbook3400/603ev-ppc-180/80MB Ram)
so i went ahead to try upgrade the rest of the pieces.
i split it up into parts guiding the best i could using dpkg, apt-get
and aptitude (more that after it was upgraded).
i rebooted twice in the middle, perhaps i took too big a chunk
the last time for it fails to boot now, about 70% of system upgrades
done. no fancy extra software or anything.
well something broke. i still suspect the ram disk utility, but with
something like 3,000 packages its pretty tough narrowing it
down, exactly where it would break down.
the same 5.1 MB ramdisk was booting me for a while as the
same size on my pismo/newworld. that is 4x what it was in sarge.
plus if you run initramfs with verbose option it shows you
it is including every module
it has and yaird quits: they are
both supposed to figure what you need to access the root
filesystem and only that (not 20 old scsci drivers).
but it was running a while. i will try again in a little while.
i think i want to try put a minimal copy of sarge on my
disk to leave alone i can boot with bootx, if i want.
note when it was booting there would it sit for like 30 seconds
with a blank screen half way through. but then the penguin
would appear and it would finish boot. funny a big different.
also if i typed a return at the quick prompt it would crash,
i just had to wait for it to time out.
right now i see that 2/3 page of text starting with "welcome"
ending with "arch:exit" then it simply shuts down ! apparently
i mean the disk shuts off and screen blanks...
brian
p.s. well its good to get a little better idea what's been
happening in the upgrade. this is the only way you see
much. sort
of like bicycling the autobahn...
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