Subject: Re: Can't install YDL 2.1 on B&W
From: Ed (ed@wang.org)
Date: Fri Jan 18 2002 - 08:04:45 MST
Thanks for the help, but rebooting into macos did nothing.
I never could get the GUI to work; it always fell back to the text
mode, so I let it be text.
I finally got the install to work by mounting the CD manually:
1) boot into install-gui (which defaults back to text mode)
2) before answering any questions, hit option-F2 to get the command
prompt.
3) cat /proc/devices to find the major number of the CDROM (56 for me).
4) cat /proc/ide/hdXX/model to find the device name of the CDROM (hdi
for me).
5) create the /dev files:
makedevs /dev/hdi b 56 0 0 15 s
6) mount the CDROM:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdi /mnt/media
7) go back to install by hitting option-F1 and finish install
The problem now is that I can't boot into linux. The final step of
the installer asked me if I wanted to install yaboot into hde7 (hde7
is the 10MB boot partition, hde8 is swap, hde9 is the ext2 for linux
and hde6 is an HFS+ partition with osX). I did this, but I never get
a chance to boot into linux. When I reboot, all I get is osX (or os9
on my main drive - hda).
I tried booting into the OpenFirmware prompt (cmd-option-o-f).
When osX is set as the startup disk, I see the boot-device is set to:
/pci@80000000/pci-bridge@d/UltraTek100+@4/FrmTk-0/@0:6,\\:tbxi
I tried changing the 6 to a 7, and/or changing \\:tbxi to \\:yaboot or
\\yaboot or \yaboot or yaboot or ofboot or ofboot.b .... etc. Nothing
works. Do you know what might be needed here?
Or does the boot partition need to be on the main hard drive (hda)? or
the first partition on the secondary drive (hde1 or somesuch)?
- Ed Wang
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 10:50:52AM -0800, Patrick Ladam wrote:
> Ed wrote:
>
> > Hi, I just purchased YDL 2.1 direct from YDL (I thought I'd support
> > them). I boot from the install CD and start to install, but after the
> > question about the keyboard type, I get a message saying "The
> > installer was unable to mount the CD/DVD". If I hit "OK", it asks me
> > to "Please insert the Yellow Dog Install CD into the CD/DVD drive".
> > This fails again. I can't seem to get past this point in the install.
> >
> > If I hit option-F3 to see the console, I see an error message,
> > "System Error: (22, 'Invalid argument')"
> >
> > Since I booted from the install CD, I don't see how it is unable to
> > mount it.
> >
> > My system is a 400MHz B&W G3 (rev 1 motherboard). The main hard drive
> > is a 2.5 GB with OS 9.2.1 installed (HFS+). I added a Sonnet Tempo
> > IDE card and added a 40GB hard drive on controller 1. Its partitioned
> > into to 20 GB partitions with OS 10.1 on the first partition (HFS+).
> > The second partition is unallocated.
> >
> > TIA,
> > Ed Wang
>
> Hi Ed,
>
> You probably are in the text-mode installer, this problem you mention does
> not appear if you are in X-mode. I have the same machine than you and noticed
> that sometimes the Graphic installer will show up, sometimes not and would
> fall back in text-mode.
> Here is a trick that worked everytime for me:
>
> 1) Go back in MacOS, reformat your swap, root and boot partitions from scratch
> using pdisk or Disk Utility from MacOS
>
> 2)Reboot once into MacOS, that is the trick to get the X-mode installer
>
> later on.
>
> 3) Reboot the YDL install CD and go for it, you should have
>
> the graphic installer now working.
>
> I have no real explanation for that (something re-initialized
>
> in MacOS during step 2 probably) but this worked perfectly for me.
>
> Bye
>
>
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