Re: Version(s) working with BlizzardPPC

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

Hello Andi, 

> Just Ctrl-Alt-F2 and there should be a shell IIRC.

I will try this. Although I think my biggest problem whilst configuring the
base system was knowing what I wanted and what I didn't!! Not sure how to
figure that out yet. In theory I would like to leave as much installed as
possible and know what to install to get some sort of gui and maybe some
apps like a browser etc installed - but I may be trying to run before I can
crawl here...... not forgetting that the clock problem isn't really resolved
yet (I'm reminding myself). 

I remember getting some dependency conflicts and not being able to resolve
them. Maybe I will post details here later after I have had another go. 

> This is good news! Also that this clearly isolates the system crashes to
> the hardware clock reads.

Yes, I am glad that the problem seems to have been totally isolated. Thanks
in no small part to you - nobody had made those suggestions before and this
is the furthest I have ever got with trying to get Linux running on my
machine. 

>> > But this is definitely not how a productive system should be run! So,
>> > try to get the dmesg output anyway and post it.

I will put the clock stuff back to how it was originally and collect some
debug output to post here. Watch this space.  

> Because you didn't tell it to save the stuff in the memory. Well, I
> guess it was me who forgot to mention it in the last mail anyway..

Don't worry, better late than never. And if my brain had retained any of the
stuff I had been reading, I would have noticed that myself.  

>> The other question is, is there a way
>> of resetting the Linux side which cleanly unmounts my hda2 partition?

> After the crash? I don't think so. Except if you can get a debug monitor
> running maybe, but this is over my head ATM.

No, I meant before a crash. For example when running the installation
program, if I chose "reboot the system" then when starting Linux again it
would run a check on hda2 everytime because it would complain that the
partition had not been cleanly unmounted. I am sure I even "unmounted" hda2
and still the revalidate ran afterwards - I will recheck that but I'm sure
that's what happened.

Thank you for all your help so far - I really appreciate it. 

Kind regards, 

Kulwant