Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ppc (71 mails)

[Alexander Schrieken <alx@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Tue, Jul 02, Alexander Schrieken wrote:
> 
> > When restart the machine the BootX-dialog does
> > appear, but when I select Linux the monitor
> > goes black -- it actually seems to switch
> > itself off.
> > 
> > This is strange because booting up Linux
> > through the BootX Application functions fine
> > (vmlinux selected, root device: /dev/sdb8).
> 
> Can you try an older version of the bootx
> extension? http://www.penguinppc.org/~benh/

I was about to -- it was the 'last resort' advice
of SuSE Support aswell. However, I thought it
might be wise to report my problem to Benjamin
Herrenschmidt first. After all he made BootX.

His suggestion was to change the filetype of the
BootX Extension from "scri" to "INIT". I used
ResEdit to do this, and guess what: it worked! I
am now able to boot into Linux through the
Extension.



Regards,



Alexander Schrieken                     Amsterdam   
alx@xxxxxxxxxxxx                  the Netherlands