Re: OldWorld ROM Macintoshes

On 9/2/25 10:26 PM, Cedar Maxwell wrote:
> Kernel 6.16 causes a black screen.  No response to CTRL + ALT + F1, F2,
> etc.
> 
> Please advise in troubleshooting.
> ...


I don't think you can necessarily conclude that the kernel is causing a 
black screen without more information. On your Wallstreet, did you 
replace Debian's 6.1.0-9 kernel that you mentioned earlier with 6.16, or 
did you upgrade all Debian packages ("apt-get dist-upgrade")?

If you ran a full "apt-get dist-upgrade" then there may some other issue 
causing the black screen. Do you see boot messages as the kernel starts 
to boot? Does the screen go blank at about the time a window manager 
starts? If you disable X11 by not running a window manager (I think 
Debian uses lightdm by default for Xfce), do you get a login prompt? Are 
you able to access the system over the network (ssh or telnet) or via a 
serial port? If yes, does /var/log/Xorg.0.log contain any useful 
information?


> On Tue, 2025-09-02 at 20:31 -0500, Cedar Maxwell wrote:
>> Good news gentlemen.
>>
>> Last time on OldWorld adventures: I attempted to install several
>> versions of Debian but each attempt rendered the OS 9 install
>> unbootable both in QEMU and on the WallStreet.
>>
>> However, the unbootability on the WallStreet appears to have been
>> caused solely by my shoddy mSATA to IDE adapter.  Although the
>> installation didn't boot on QEMU, I tried another adapter (still
>> JM20330 based) and it booted up.  Note to QEMU maintainers perhaps
>> lurking on this mailing list: Is this the intended behavior?
>>
>> I attempted to boot into Debian 6.1.0-9 using an image from 2023-05-
>> 08.
>> Mission success!  I don't know yet if this because of an older kernel
>> version, or because I omitted the GRUB partition, but I intend to
>> test
>> updating the kernel and reporting back. ...