On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 10:00:15PM -0700, Brian Morris wrote: > On 10/23/06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > >On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 03:01 -0700, Brian Morris wrote: > >> well i tried again, still same result as ever trying > >> to boot 2.6.18 on my old powerbook. > >> > >> synopsis: bootx hangs after first line "welcome to linux", > >> quik goes all the way to VFS: ... unknown block(0,0) > >> (as if there is no initramfs). no floppy drive, so can't > >> try miboot. > > > >Quik can load an initrd at all ? I don't remember... > works fine with 2.6.15-1, if "modules=dep" is set in > etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf. Me too. Works with yaird too, if I recall correctly. [...] > quik is quik, it boots faster and runs faster, it would be much > better if i could use it. but it acts like it can't see the ram disk initrd. Quik handles initrd well. There seems to be a problem with kernels > 2.6.15 and initrd on oldworld. I managed to boot a customized 2.6.18 with the ide-drivers builtin with quick, but the official debian kernels fails to find root fs (as if the kernel does not find the ramdisk). I reported bug#366620 which is now closed, but patch that closed the bug didn't work on my performa 5400. #390432 seems to be a continuation of the same problem. On a possibly unrelated matter, the current (2006-10-24) set of miboot-floppies (http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc-miboot/daily/powerpc/floppy/) also fails to load the initrd: "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 No filesystem could mount root, tried: cramfs Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0)" The miboot-floppies of beta3 (2006-08-04) boots to debian-installer sucessfully with a 2.6.16 kernel and initrd (on cramfs). So 2.6.16 can load the initrd on oldworld macs, even though the official debian kernels > 2.6.15 always has failed on my box (performa 5400, with 24 Mb ram). -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> GnuPG key: 1024D/7050614E Fingerprint: 1408 C8D5 1E7D 4C9C C27E 014F 7C2C 872A 7050 614E Learn about secure email at http://www.gnupg.org
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