Please no grub, but go on with yaboot. Have Natty running on G4 now with linux-image-2.6.38-1-powerpc kernel. The X Desktop does in Classic Desktop mode, what it got to do.
Frans van Berckel On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 21:28 +0000, Geoffrey Pursell wrote: > Will GRUB2 boot an old G4 machine now? It would be interesting to see > if that would work where yaboot fails, but I'm not willing to risk > further breakage right now. > > I can still boot using the "old" kernel. It looks like the upgrade > process left a 2.6.35 in the yaboot menu. I can boot to that fine, > though I get corruption on my X desktop. > > ** Tags removed: needs-upstream-testing > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/714165 Title: natty, ppc kernel linux-image-2.6.38-2-powerpc fails to boot -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
