Re: Version(s) working with BlizzardPPC

[Kulwant B. <kul...@bt...>]

Hello Andi, 

> Hmm, since normal booting doesn't work for you, boot with the install
> image:

>  1) go directly to the step of the installer where you can mount
> partitions. There, you choose your root partition. IIRC it gets mounted
> under /target/.

>  2) go to the step where you can open a shell. Then
>      # cd /target/
>      # cd etc/rcS.d/
>      # mv S50hwclock.sh offS50hwclock.sh

>     "S50hwclock.sh" is in fact a link to "../init.d/hwclock.sh".

>      To prevent troubles during shutdown, do something similar for
> rc6.d:

>      # cd ../rc6.d/
>      # mv K25hwclock.sh offK25hwclock.sh

> BTW: I have no idea why it tries to write to the clock at boot time at
> all.

OK, tried the above and I still get a kernel panic (which I can't capture
with dmesg - it always says: 

"Searching for SAVEKMSG magic...
Not found"

I managed to write down this before it rebooted:

System time was Sun Dec 14 02:45:22 UTC 2003
Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference...
NIP: C00DCA04 XER: 20000000 LR: C00DC988 REGS: c7c71d60 TRAP: 0300


There was a fair bit after that which I didn't catch. 

> If it doesn't work yet, you could also rename the hwclockfirst.sh call,
> although it doesn't seem to write to the clock.

>      # cd etc/rcS.6/
>      # mv S18hwclockfirst.sh offS18hwclockfirst.sh

> But I would heavily advise against it, because then nothing is setting
> the system clock (system clock != hardware clock), which could lead to
> strange behaviour of the system.

Hmmm, about to try this now.......

Kind Regards, 

Kulwant