On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 07:41:43AM -0500, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > der.hans was said to been seen saying: > > How're you installing the new kernel? Do you have a partition of type 41 > > at the beginning of the disk onto which you dd the kernel? > > > Yes... the system has 3 partitions on a SCSI harddrive... sda1 is > the ext2 / partitions, sda2 is the Type 41 PPC PReP Boot partition and > sda3 is the swap... do I have to dd the kernel to the PReP boot partition? > This was actually done for me during the install through the boot disks I > grab'd off www.debian.org for PReP... The kernels I have been attempting > to install are the kernel-image-2.2.{12,13}-prep which want to run quik > to make the system bootable... > > > That's what I do for my blackhawks and other Mot boxen. > > > > I'd say not since you mention quik :). I haven't used quik, so have no > > clue if it works. I haven't needed it. If I have two disks, one is my > > stable kernel and the other is my unstable kernel. > > > Only reason I mention'd quik was that the kernel-image packages > have both tried to use it to make the system bootable... > > > Did you install based on http://www.debian.org/~porter/? If you used > > another setup or set of docs I'd like to know about them as it might have > > more/different info than what Matt has up. > > > Yes that is the install instructions I followed when I first did > the install and it made the system bootable from the harddrive... Since > then I have not been able to reproduce whatever it did to make the system > boot the kernel... Even though I"ve install'd new kernels on the system it > still has yet to boot one of them... dd if=<kernel_image> of=/dev/sda2 ^^^^^^^^^ your case Apologies since I haven't yet file a bug report or fixed the kernel-image packages installer to not attempt to use quik on PReP systems. I'm trying but am low on time and swimming in email. :-/ Anybody care to fix this? -- Matt Porter mmporter@home.com This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.
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