[SOLVED] Re: problems with kernel-source-2.6.8-5 on powerbook 15 1.33GHz

2004-09-05 Thread Sam Zoghaib
Problem solved. You have to set CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION=y. I was quite stupid not to notice this wasn't set. Especially since it says to use this if your hard drive was partitionned by a Macintosh. Hope this will give a definitive answer to that problem. Sam -- Alcohol: The cause of, and solution

Re: [SOLVED] Re: problems with kernel-source-2.6.8-5 on powerbook 15 1.33GHz

2004-09-05 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ello, On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 06:41, Sam Zoghaib wrote: Problem solved. You have to set CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION=y. Very strange -- at first it /didn't/ work but then I fiddled around a bit, did a make-kpkg clean and it appears to be working now! Thanks very much! :-) bye just now, -- Matthew

Re: problems with kernel-source-2.6.8-5 on powerbook 15 1.33GHz

2004-09-04 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sam Zoghaib writes: I have just bought a Powerbook 15 1.33GHz. I installed Sarge on it, then upgraded to Sid. The kernel installed by the installer is 2.6.7. However, I have not been able to run a 2.6.8 kernel. I've had a few different problems. [...] Note that this running kernel

Re: problems with kernel-source-2.6.8-5 on powerbook 15 1.33GHz

2004-09-03 Thread Sam Zoghaib
Ok, I have tried to build a new kernel that uses initrd (but keeping ide support built-in). The kernel boots, goes up to USB detection, and then freezes instead of panicking as it did without initrd. Any idea ? Sam -- All ITS machines now have hardware for a new machine instruction -- BFM Be

Re: problems with kernel-source-2.6.8-5 on powerbook 15 1.33GHz

2004-09-03 Thread Sam Zoghaib
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:41:28AM +0200, Sam Zoghaib wrote: I have just bought a Powerbook 15 1.33GHz. I installed Sarge on it, then upgraded to Sid. The kernel installed by the installer is 2.6.7. However, I have not been able to run a 2.6.8 kernel. I have also tried kernel-source-2.4.27 and

Re: problems with kernel-source-2.6.8-5 on powerbook 15 1.33GHz

2004-09-02 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ello, On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 03:41, Sam Zoghaib wrote: Note that this running kernel uses initrd. I don't want to use it for my own kernel, so of course ide support was built-in. I have just posted (sorry!) about a very similar problem on my PowerBook5,4 -- it looks like we're using the same

Re: problems with kernel-source-2.6.8-5 on powerbook 15 1.33GHz

2004-09-02 Thread Sam Zoghaib
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 06:05:34PM +0100, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: Here is what my .config says: [snip .config] I believe as far as that section is conerned, you have far more drivers than needed (some reported they had their drive working with only the PMAC_* options and PCI IDE and DMA).

problems with kernel-source-2.6.8-5 on powerbook 15 1.33GHz

2004-09-01 Thread Sam Zoghaib
Hi, I have just bought a Powerbook 15 1.33GHz. I installed Sarge on it, then upgraded to Sid. The kernel installed by the installer is 2.6.7. However, I have not been able to run a 2.6.8 kernel. I've had a few different problems. If CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y and CONFIG_PREEMPT=y the kernel freezes with a