Re: G3 iMac (PowerMac4,1), unable to boot cd52.
On 08/12/12(Sat) 23:43, Nick Holland wrote: On 11/11/12 16:13, Brynet wrote: It seems that macppc snapshots are broken on this model. The RAMDISK kernel never reaches userland, it gets as far as mounting root (root on rd0a..) and then.. stops. Unfortunately, I'm not sure when this started, I haven't powered on this system since I moved.. my bad. :-) USB device insertions/removals continue making noise, so, it's not completely dead. No problems with release, dmesg attached. I'm having the same problem, I've narrowed the breakage point down a bit... Thanks for reporting this and sorry for the delay at fixing the issue. It should be back to normal now, it was just a problem of matching the graphic card in vgafb(4). Cheers, Martin
Re: G3 iMac (PowerMac4,1), unable to boot cd52.
On 12/13/12 08:56, Martin Pieuchot wrote: On 08/12/12(Sat) 23:43, Nick Holland wrote: On 11/11/12 16:13, Brynet wrote: It seems that macppc snapshots are broken on this model. The RAMDISK kernel never reaches userland, it gets as far as mounting root (root on rd0a..) and then.. stops. Unfortunately, I'm not sure when this started, I haven't powered on this system since I moved.. my bad. :-) USB device insertions/removals continue making noise, so, it's not completely dead. No problems with release, dmesg attached. I'm having the same problem, I've narrowed the breakage point down a bit... Thanks for reporting this and sorry for the delay at fixing the issue. It should be back to normal now, it was just a problem of matching the graphic card in vgafb(4). Cheers, Martin ta-da! That did it for my machine! :) Nick.
