Subject: Re: Errors...
From: Susan Midlarsky (susanrm@mit.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 29 2001 - 12:58:21 MST
> >YES -- almost certainly.
> >
> >Some (older) machines kernels' cannot be patched on the fly. You might
> >also try upgrading mol from 0.54 -- look on the maconlinux.com website.
> >Note that it is important that you have a copy of the actual kernel that
> >you are booting from (which may be on the Mac side if you are using BootX
> >/ miboot) in /boot on the linux side.
> >
> >To provide further assistance we would need to know (a) which machine +
> >hardware you have, and (b) which kernel you are booting from (try uname
> >-r). If you have a major release from a distribution such as Linuxppc or
> >YDL [I guess you have Linuxppc Halloween or Q4] then they usually come
> >with a mol-enabled kernel which you can try. Have a look on the cd.
>
>That applies mostly for PowerPC 603 (and the [e,ev] variants) processors.
>If your processor is not one of these, I'd ask what boot method you're
>using.
>
>If you use BootX, you need make sure that the kernel you have in your
>/boot directory in the Linux side is the same as that you have in your
>"System Folder:Linux Kernels" in the MacOS side. Also, make sure to
>select it from the pop-up menu in the BootX dialog box. If everything
>works ok, then you'd probably be better off clicking the "save to prefs"
>button of BootX after you select the proper kernel during the next boot.
>
>Hope this actually solves your problem. Maybe it's too basic for you, but
>even the most advanced users sometimes forget about basic things. :-P
Can't be too basic for me - I'm just starting! :-) However again, I
am on a G4 purchased last summer, using yaboot for booting, with the
same kernel on the boot partition in Mac OS and in /boot.
The name of the kernel, again, is vmlinux-2.2.18-4hpmac.
Thanks for any help.
Susan
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