hmmm. funny thing. i finished the package upgrades today, booted from 2.6.8-3 with bootx (had to restore the modules tree from a backup)
just figured i would try 15 again, and aha, it worked ! but then now i just booted and it quits again... turns out it need termination on the scsci bus, or else it just quits before the penguin. also that most of the difference i thought in the startup screen is just a long pause while it is loading up the module tree, as i said bug in mkinit apparently. when booting 2.6.8 the first screen goes by so fast you can barely see it, its just like a flash. any questions or comments here, please speak up, i am planning to make my installation report in the next few days. also i have yet to get xorg started, that's another thing. --- brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well i tried this, upgrade from etch (removing the please excuse, i meant "upgrade from sarge to etch" > 2.6.16-2 that > never i could boot). it booted with quik, surprise > tho not with bootx. > (just for reference > :powerbook3400/603ev-ppc-180/80MB Ram) > so i went ahead to try upgrade the rest of the > pieces. > > i split it up into parts guiding the best i could > using dpkg, apt-get > and aptitude (more that after it was upgraded). > > i rebooted twice in the middle, perhaps i took too > big a chunk > the last time for it fails to boot now, about 70% of > system upgrades > done. no fancy extra software or anything. > > well something broke. i still suspect the ram disk > utility, but with > something like 3,000 packages its pretty tough > narrowing it > down, exactly where it would break down. > > the same 5.1 MB ramdisk was booting me for a while > as the > same size on my pismo/newworld. that is 4x what it > was in sarge. > plus if you run initramfs with verbose option it > shows you > it is including every module it has and yaird quits: > they are > both supposed to figure what you need to access the > root > filesystem and only that (not 20 old scsci drivers). > > > > but it was running a while. i will try again in a > little while. > i think i want to try put a minimal copy of sarge on > my > disk to leave alone i can boot with bootx, if i > want. > > note when it was booting there would it sit for like > 30 seconds > with a blank screen half way through. but then the > penguin > would appear and it would finish boot. funny a big > different. > also if i typed a return at the quick prompt it > would crash, > i just had to wait for it to time out. > > right now i see that 2/3 page of text starting with > "welcome" > ending with "arch:exit" then it simply shuts down ! > apparently > i mean the disk shuts off and screen blanks... > > brian > > p.s. well its good to get a little better idea > what's been > happening in the upgrade. this is the only way you > see > much. sort of like bicycling the autobahn... > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls > to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2ยข/min or less. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
