Re: About yabootconfig

2003-09-07 Thread pieter
Hi Nick, i guess kernel crashes is part of the game, isn't it? :) I have actually solved this problem by downloading a kernel-image (2.4.22-ben2) ready to use for my iMac DV+ Problem is that I am still working on missing modem/ethernet connection as well as sound capabilities. BTW some time a

Re: About yabootconfig

2003-09-06 Thread nick phillips
uh-oh.. :) sorry to hear about the recurring kernel problems - i've been there many times before. i use yaboot on two new-world machines (powerbook g3 pismo and lombard), and have had to boot using the yaboot method a couple of times. your syntax looks fine to me, perhaps the problem is in the part

Re: About yabootconfig

2003-09-06 Thread pieter
Hi Nick, last night I did it again... :-) due to a bad kernel I lost control of my linuxbox after start and had to force a reboot as the system had frozen solid. Problem I couldn't see my ext2 partition from OSX so that possibility wasn't there anymore. I had however noted down the exact path t

Re: About yabootconfig

2003-09-05 Thread nick phillips
Glad to hear you solved the problem! That's interesting that OS X supports the ext2 filesystem, and good to know -- I was always under the impressions that Mac OS and linux were mutually incompatible. And if make-kpkg works for you, that's even better. For some reason every time I've tried to use m

Re: About yabootconfig

2003-09-05 Thread pieter
Hello, Nic not sure if this helps, but I think installing the kernel-image.deb file (created with make-kpkg kernel-image) just moves the new vmlinux kernel to /boot/vmlinux-2.X.XX (along with the corresponding config file) then updates the symlink between /vmlinux and the current kernel (i.e.

About yabootconfig

2003-09-04 Thread pieter
Hi everybody, Last night I had a go with a make-kpkg for compiling a custom (debian) kernel image package which I subsequentely installed with dpkg -i (my kernel) onto the trusty iMac. In the x386 environment the build-in installer script would also correct and finally, modify lilo.conf. and