Latest kernel doesn't work on PPC?

Garance A Drosihn drosih at rpi.edu
Sun Apr 17 20:05:27 PDT 2005


At 1:22 PM +1000 4/17/05, Peter Grehan wrote:
>
>>Is there any simple way for me to get back to the kernel which had
>>been working for me?
>
>  When booting the loader from the OpenFirmware prompt, give it a
>partition which is either non-existent, doesn't have a kernel to
>load, or isn't a UFS partition e.g.
>
>0 > boot hd:loader hd:0


>  At this point, you can set currdev and manually load a kernel e.g.
>
>OK set currdev=hd:14
>OK load /boot/kernel/kernel.save

This worked fine.  Thanks!

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
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