On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 the mental interface of Matthias Jordan told: > Hi, folks. > > Since I've been running Ubuntu Breezy on my iBook G4 I kept having > problems booting the kernel - regardless of the kernel version. From > time to time the kernel just wouldn't start because it hung right > after the printk from the serial driver. The only solution to this > was to press the On/Off button for like 5 seconds to turn the > machine off the hard way. When the issue appeared, the kernel kept > hanging for a couple of tries to boot it but then again I often > could boot about 10 times without any problems.
Did you ever tried a nvram reset? Just press "option apple p r" right after startup and hold it since the gong repeated 3 times and let Debian boot then ;) Elimar -- Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
