Re: 5.1 kernel without firewire

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

Le 3 nov. 2010 à 21:23, Rémi Zara a écrit :

> 
> 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....
> 

scratch that. It does. I could disable fwohci, and the kernel booted fine.
Thanks a lot,

Rémi Zara