G4 boot crash problems with 2.4 "stable"

[David A. Gatwood]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 benh at kernel.crashing.org wrote:

> >Is there a 2.4 kernel source tarball around that is known to boot on
> >Sawtooth (using BootX)?  Is there a way to yank the OpenPIC support?
>
> BootX isn't supported on any newworld mac. You should boot from OF,
> using yaboot.

BootX works fine for me with every 2.2 kernel I've tried.  It only fails
for 2.4 TOT builds.  I very much doubt the boot mechanism is at fault.


Later,
David

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