Glad to hear you solved the problem! That's interesting that OS X supports the ext2 filesystem, and good to know -- I was always under the impressions that Mac OS and linux were mutually incompatible. And if make-kpkg works for you, that's even better. For some reason every time I've tried to use make-kpkg I've ended up with dependency failures, but perhaps I just didn't try hard enough.
One more note -- you said your keyboard failed after using the new kernel? This actually happened to me this week, apparently the problem for me was that I selected "Support for ADB raw keycodes = YES". If you select 'NO' for this and recompile, you should have your keyboard back. And you're right -- apt-get with debian sid is a dangerous proposition sometimes... but how else can I get my shiny KDE 3 desktop?? :) best, Nick > > Today I had lost keyboard use when in Linux. > I went back into OSX by holding pressed the X on my keyboard during > reboot and was able to cancel the /vmlinux symlink and rename the > /vmlinux.old into /vmlinux. This was possible as I had direct access to > my ext2 Linux partition from OSX thanks to a very useful fs utility > that works under OSX and enables mounting on the finder desktop a ext2 > partition. > > As for the remaining part of your post, I think make-kpkg works just > great: long life to it! > If I where you, I would trust more on the Debian (stable) distribution > and the make-kpkg command as after all it doesn't really change much in > your installation. :-)) > Chances are that apt-get sometime is much more dangerous especially > when it comes to libraries and other important packages coming from > unstable or testing. > > But, of course, this is my personal opinion as I should always keep in > mind that: > "when the going gets tough...." > > Happy computing! > > Pieter >
