On (19/10/03 20:22), Georg Koss wrote: > Hi, > > to start I'm back in Sarge with my PBG4 12". > > Finally it was Ben's hint which made the day a red-letter day. > > For the records: So I rsynced 2.4.23-pre5-ben0, compiled it monolithic > without that CPU-frequency scaling option. > I renamed vmlinux to linux.bin. Then I went on as Matthias Schmidt > recommended for installation on PBG4 at > http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~schmidtm/apple/powerbook.en.php > and 2.4.23 was up :))) > > I looked on mac-fdisk's output and surprisingly for me hda2 was > Apple_bootstrap. So some crowdy error-messages tricked me to believe I > lost hda2's type during my boot-trials from macosx and cd 8-p. > > There were explicitly messages like "Bootstrap of type HFS". > > Then I rsync'ed 2.4.23 from my PB, make-kpkg ..., installed it. > > Just to get shure I did a ybin -v before reboot (don't know if it was > necessary). > > BTW hwclock was (re)set to "some day in 1970" when I booted first from > macosx, everything else seemed to be ok. > > Finally, I want to thank Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Chris Tillman, Clive > Menzies, Wolfgang Pfeiffer and Eric Bachard much for spending their > time and knowledge to solve my problem. You're welcome ;) Good news that your system is back together!
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