Subject: wake from sleep and DMA problem
john.newsom@bsd405.com
Date: Tue Aug 22 2000 - 16:55:34 MDT
One more point, I am using Yaboot .5 with a dual boot script as described in the
installation guide. Works great most of the time except as indicated below.
John Newsom
> I have a PB G3 99 with 128 MB Ram running CS 1.2. I have several partitions,
> including a Mac HFS+ with OS 9, a small Mac HFS for sharing, and a linux and
> swap. I have a strange boot behavior. If the machine has been off for while,
> over a couple of hours, and I try to boot into Linux without first booting in
> the Mac side, the startup sequence stalls at the message: hdc: Enabling
> MultiWord DMA 2. This message is repeated, and then the system hangs, and I
> have to do a Ctrl-apple-power key restart. If I boot back into the mac side,
> and then do a restart, the linux startup runs fine.
>
> Now, today, I downloaded pmud, got it running, put the PB to sleep, and I
> couldn't wake the machine up without a cold reboot. I saw a message from Paul
> Lukas about this in July, but no resolution. And this time, I get repeated
> bevahior of the linux boot process hanging at the DMA message.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> John Newsom
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