Re: Debian 3.0 on n A1200 BPPC with latest Kernel

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Son, 2002-12-15 at 12:55, Bj=F6rn Johansson wrote:
> Michel =3D?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=3DE4nzer?=3D wrote about Debian 3.0 on n A1200 =
BPPC with latest Kernel:
>=20
> > On Die, 2002-12-10 at 07:15, Daniel Rangel wrote:=20
> >=20
> > >     Well, I finally decided to migrate to Debian after having a lot o=
f
> > > trouble with LinuxPPC (updating the installation and packages was a m=
ess
> > > with manual installation of RPM packages...). I got the first 3 CDs o=
f the
> > > Debian 3.0 PPC distro and I'm trying toget it running. I'm not noew t=
o APUS
> > > so I managed to install the basic installation but after installing t=
he
> > > machine freezes when I try to boot from the installed partition... so=
 the
> > > question is: Has anyone running Debian 3.0 on an A1200/PPC with the
> > > latestAPUS kernel? (2.4.18-2).
> >=20
> > It's a common problem. Please try the 2.4.20 kernel and let us know if
> > it makes a difference.
>=20
> I've downloaded this archive from 2 different mirrors, and when I'm
> trying to extract the archive it says the archive is corrupt.

D'oh, I always forget limiting lha to lh6. Sorry about that, fixed now.

> I also want to say that I still have trouble booting the 2.4.18-2 kernel
> sometimes, but this get fixed when I do a hard reset(using MCP), not alwa=
ys
> though. I suspect that AmigaOS has some bad information in memory which h=
as
> been kept resident by different programs.

Interesting.


--=20
Earthling Michel D=E4nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast