Troubles with Potato/Woody on iBook 2001

2001-09-02 Thread Laurent de Segur
Hi all, This message describes some problems I've ran into while installing a Debian distr (2.2r3 + update stable) on a new iBook 2001 (P29 aka Marble). First it seems that the kernel that ships on the CD is a pre 2.2.18 and won't boot on this machine. So I got a 2.2.18 from Suse (god forbids!) j

Re: Troubles with Potato/Woody on iBook 2001

2001-09-03 Thread Arrigo Benedetti
Laurent de Segur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > This message describes some problems I've ran into while installing a Debian > distr (2.2r3 + update stable) on a new iBook 2001 (P29 aka Marble). > > First it seems that the kernel that ships on the CD is a pre 2.2.18 and > won't boot o

Re: Troubles with Potato/Woody on iBook 2001

2001-09-03 Thread Laurent de Segur
on 9/2/01 11:34 PM, Arrigo Benedetti at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Rebooting with the original 2.2.18 works fine. On the iBook 2001, I have to >> set "video=ofonly" to get video at boot time. Is this related? It seems that >> the OS is still loading but I can't see it. >> > > Yes, I got the Do-

Re: Troubles with Potato/Woody on iBook 2001

2001-09-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 05:41:56PM -0700, Laurent de Segur wrote: > > The problem is still here. Reading debian docs for half a day didn't solve > anything :-( - I learned a lot more about various policies though... > > Here is what I do: > - I built the kernel the debian way (make-kpkg yadi yada

Re: Troubles with Potato/Woody on iBook 2001

2001-09-03 Thread thorsten_nicklaus
Laurent de Segur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, > - I built the kernel the debian way (make-kpkg yadi yada...) That dosen't work for me. > - I DO use 'video=atyfb video=ofonly' in the append string. With the 2.2.* kernel only use video=ofonly. With the 2.4 kernel the other string is no problem. >

Re: Troubles with Potato/Woody on iBook 2001

2001-09-04 Thread Colin Walters
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > - I built the kernel the debian way (make-kpkg yadi yada...) > That dosen't work for me. What problems did you run into?

Re: Troubles with Potato/Woody on iBook 2001

2001-09-04 Thread Bastien Nocera
Laurent de Segur wrote: on 9/2/01 11:34 PM, Arrigo Benedetti at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rebooting with the original 2.2.18 works fine. On the iBook 2001, I have to set "video=ofonly" to get video at boot time. Is this related? It seems that the OS is still loading but I can't see it. Yes,

Re: Troubles with Potato/Woody on iBook 2001

2001-09-04 Thread thorsten_nicklaus
Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What problems did you run into? I don't now. The compile fail. Now, I try it with 2.4.8 and no problem. Anything Okay! bye Thorsten

Re: Troubles with Potato/Woody on iBook 2001

2001-09-04 Thread Laurent de Segur
on 9/4/01 1:28 AM, Bastien Nocera at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When the iBook restarts, I still get the Do-QUIESCE message. Linux boots >> (supposedly as I hear the disk) but the OF screen is blocking the view >> kinda. >> >> Switching to linux-2.2.18 which I got from somewhere else works. It's

Re: Troubles with Potato/Woody on iBook 2001

2001-10-10 Thread Woo-il Song
Arrigo Benedetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Laurent de Segur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi all, ... > > Did you get the 2.4 from http://penguinppc.org/~benh/ ? Please note that this > link is temporarily down at the moment. http://master.penguinppc.org/~benh/ I'm using vmlinux-2.4.1