Re: Etch on old world with 2.5.15-1 and Quik
hmmm. funny thing. i finished the package
upgrades today, booted from 2.6.8-3 with bootx
(had to restore the modules tree from a backup)
just figured i would try 15 again, and aha, it worked
!
but then now i just booted and it quits again...
turns out it need termination on the scsci bus,
or else it just quits before the penguin.
also that most of the difference i thought
in the startup screen is just a long pause while it
is loading up the module tree, as i said bug
in mkinit apparently. when booting 2.6.8 the first
screen goes by so fast you can barely see it,
its just like a flash.
any questions or comments here, please speak up,
i am planning to make my installation report in the
next few days.
also i have yet to get xorg started, that's another
thing.
--- brian <cymraegish@yahoo.com> wrote:
> well i tried this, upgrade from etch (removing the
please excuse, i meant "upgrade from sarge to etch"
> 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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