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Article #29Re: Recompile kernel for PowerPC
From: Rod Smith
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 16:24
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 16:24
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In article <b3ae677.0212081841.22206da7@posting.google.com>, ogaumond@yahoo.com (Olivier Gaumond) writes: > I would like to have some precisions to manually install a new kernel > on a PowerPC currently running Debian 3.0 with kernel 2.2.20 > > Here are the step I took, but without success. ... > When I try to boot with the new image it begins to load, then the > screen goes black. I can still boot with the old image. I suspect you omitted an important kernel driver. I recently compiled 2.4.19 on a Debian 3.0 system and ran into this problem. IIRC, I had to add in frame-buffer support before my iMac would give me a display, but I didn't take notes on the details. (Without a display, the system booted, and I could get to it via SSH from other systems on my network.) I think the Open Firmware Frame Buffer Device Support option in the Console Drivers->Frame-Buffer Support kernel menu was the critical item, but I'm not positive of that. -- Rod Smith, rodsmith@rodsbooks.com http://www.rodsbooks.com Author of books on Linux, networking, & multi-OS configuration
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