Kevin van Haaren wrote: > > At 8:08 AM -0500 9/3/01, Kevin van Haaren wrote: > >I messed up my machine a couple of times running unstable (huh, > >wonder why they call it that 8-) anyway I want to downgrade to just > >woody. I dug through the apt-get and dselect man pages and didn't > >see a way to do this. Is it enough to remove the unstable > >references in sources.list and run upgrade? or will that leave some > >of the unstable packages in place? > > Thanks for all the replies, I apologize for posting a topic that was > more appropriate to the -user list. I've decided to go ahead and > just reformat and start from scratch. This will let me move away > from BootX to quik too, and let me get rid of a lot of crud I've > accumlated over the last year.
I've had better luck with bootx, but I don't have any experience with your machine (it's a matter of totally lame OF, not a quik problem) you you might have better results. I would try to get the quik method of booting to work reliably and repeatably before wiping all possibility of bootx away. > Now for the new (PowerPC related) problem: > > This is a SuperMac C500, Mac clone. I've added 64MB of memory (96 > total), an AdvanSys (ConnectCom) SCSI card, and a IDE hard drive to > the integrated IDE controller on the motherboard (this all worked > under a custom compiled 2.2.19 kernel, I needed to add ConnectCom's > lastest driver to get the SCSI card to work). > > When I boot from the Woody boot disks, the HFS disk works fine, I put > the root disk in, hit enter (which works fine -- yeah!), and after a > while and a bunch of messages I get: > > set_blocksize: b_count 1, dev fd(2,0), block 1 from c0067b74 > Error: Kernel Panic unable to mount root fs on 02:00 > > I thought it might be a bad floppy and tried putting the root.bin > image on a different disk. Same error (possible 2 bad floppies? > They aren't brand new) > > Could a conflict with the SCSI card cause this? Any other ideas? Uh, that sounds like an x86 thing to say ~:^) Sounds more like bad/flaky hardware/media. I've had this problem before. I was just persistent trying different floppies, or just formatting and creating the root floppy over and over until it seemed to sink in or something and suddenly started working. a