After choosing the 'live-safe' boot image, I am presented with a few screens and finally the screen which has tux the penguin at top. Lines scroll and adb probing begins, finally the scrolling halts after these lines (two variants, cannot definitely reproduce a certain variant, seems to be random between these): Variant 1: IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver ADB mouse at 3, handler set to 4<5>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 2740k freed (trackpad)VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Freeing unused kernel memory: 168k init 4k chrp 36k prep Variant 2: IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 2740k freed ADB mouse at 3, handler set to 4VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Freeing unused kernel memory: 168k init 4k chrp 36k prep (trackpad) Upon closer inspection, the two variants above appear to be almost identical excepting the misplacement of the "RAMDISK..." and "Freeing initrd..." and " (trackpad)" lines. Please note the above lines have been transcribed exactly as they appeared on my screen. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Insert LiveCD 2.Select 'live-safe' as boot image 3.Wait Actual Results: Results as described above. Expected Results: Software should have finished loading ADB devices. Error appears independent of devices attached to the notebook via USB. Same results as above when external USB mouse is plugged in.
try booting with: livecd-safe nol3 instead of livecd-safe. These powerbooks have a known issue. Benh (the linux ppc kernel maintainer) is looking into this. Next livecds will have this problem fixed if benh releases a new kernel. for now use nol3 which disables level3 caching. Thnxs for trying out the livecd
make that live-safe nol3 instead of livecd-safe nol3
