Re: 5.1 kernel without firewire

[Rémi Zara <remi.zara%free.fr@localhost>]

Le 3 nov. 2010 à 20:22, der Mouse a écrit :

> Please don't use paragraph-length lines!  I've manually wrapped them in
> my quotes below.
> 
>> [...] the machine won't boot after installation, panicing in fwohci
>> init (fwohci: kernel MCHK trap)
>> This machine has a broken firewire so this might be expected.  The
>> install kernel boots fine.
> 
>> Could someone put a 5.1 kernel without firewire online, or suggest a
>> workaround ?
> 
> I have a (non-Mac) laptop with a similar problem under 4.0.1.  I dealt
> with it by booting with -c and doing "disable fwohci" at the userconf
> prompt.  (Of course, just about the first thing I did after booting
> that way was to build a kernel without firewire.)
> 
> This assumes macppc has a way to boot that's semantically equivalent to
> i386's (the port my laptop uses) "boot -c".  If not, about all I have
> to suggest is to cross-build a kernel on another machine.
> 

It seems it does not....

Regards,

Rémi Zara