Hi all,
This is a followup and what I did to fix it - or not.
Michael Lake wrote:
> I need some help in doing a partial reinstall from CD1 onto a Ti
> PowerBook that has a non bootable kernel. The rest of the system is
> fine, the boot loader is fine - its just that the kernel (a benh kernel)
> will not boot anymore. If there is anyone coming Fri night to slug that
> can spare some time before the meeting (hell we dont want to miss the
> x-box talk) and who is good at debina installs I could do with some help.
Basically I had two choices: 1. reinstall OSX from original CD and see
if that changed back whatever was causing the problem. 2. reinstall
Linux as a stock kernel 2.4.18 prior to the benh kernel 2.4.20 did work.
I choose the later as I really needed ny system up.
I booted from the install CD1 and skipped all the partitioning and
initialising stuff and went straight to installing a kernel and modules;
thence to installing a base system. The Debian installer complained
and said it was designed to install on a clean system and I already had
a Debian system on there. I ignored that as I didn't want to initialise
the disk partition as it was just one partition including /home and
initialisation would wipe that clean. I wanted it to just install a
kernel and modules. Then I made it bootable by reinstalling yaboot.
It worked OK and it booted fine. I just had to put back on /etc/hosts
and minor stuff. /home was fine. Today at uni I did an apt-get update
and I expected all sorts of probs with library and file mismatches but
there were none. The only thing it did that was unusual is that dpkg is
now 'held back' for some reason.
Moral: 1. dont update as soon as updates are available from Apple
2. have a backup of your kernel on another machine
3. even for a small system having /home on another partition
would have been useful.
PS. Although I could mount my Linux partition I could not cp the files
to another machine as the shell from booting CD1 does not have available
ftp, rsync, scp to copy files. I tried using those from my mounted Linux
partition but they were compiled with different libs to what was running
on the ram disk. I even tried editing /etc/ld.so.conf to point to the
libs on the hard disk and running ldconfig to get them to use the right
libs but that didnt work. Thus as a rescue disk CD1 wasnt much use.
PS. On last Saturday there was an article on Slashdot about the problems
that users were having with the patch that got pulled ny Apple after
only being realeased for a few hours "MacFixIt Details Mac OS X 10.2.8
Bugs".
Mike
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