Subject: Re: Newbie installation problems on Umax S900 continue
From: Ed Jaeger (ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com)
Date: Fri Jun 02 2000 - 22:33:49 MDT
It sounds like BootX doesn't have the correct argument for your root
filesystem. If you set it up with external scsi drives (I assume the
umax has an internal ide drive for MacOS) then your boot partition will
probably be something like /dev/sda5.
If you're getting the installer again when you boot you need to uncheck
the box telling linux to boot with a ramdisk - the default ramdisk
starts the installer, after linux is installed you don't need it
anymore.
"David A. Lewis" wrote:
>
> I'm a "newbie" to Linux and have yet to manage to get it to install
> correctly on my Umax S900...
>
> I've got two external 9.1 gb Seagate "Elite" drives, formatted with
> FWB HD toolkit... then partitioned and reformatted with Apple "Drive
> Setup" ver. 1.8.1 (which allow Unix formatting for Linux partitions)
> I'm using just a simple 2gb "/" root partition and a 60mb "swap"
> partition...
>
> After running through that, and running the install (from a
> LinuxPPC-2000 install cdrom) the installation then prompts me to
> reformat these existing Linux partitions, from within an "Xwindows"
> GUI shell of the installer... I do that, proceed with the O/S and
> basic software installation..
>
> When prompted to exit the installer and reboot, I do,, and then the
> trouble starts.... :-\
>
> No matter what I type into the "Boot Arguments", to direct the BootX
> controlpanel to use the Linux O/S on the external drive,, it can't
> seem to find it!! I get "kernal panic" errors, and "root filesystem
> not found" errors...
>
> I've switched to trying the YDL iso. diskimage, downloaded off their
> FTP server, but I can't get it to properly launch any sort of
> installer... (I have ramdisk.image.gz and vmlinux sitting on the
> "root" level of my system folder... and have BootX control panel and
> BootX extension correctly installed..).
>
> Nor can I simply "mount" that YDL iso. diskimage, on my Mac desktop
> using Toast, or DiskCopy, or Shrinkwrap. however, I DID manage to create
> a CDROM with this image data on it...but it mounts as only an untitled
> CDROM, and shows the iso.diskimage inside the cdrom icon, when you open up the
> root folder of the "burned" CDROM...
>
> When I restart my Umax, I get the BootX splashscreen showing up, and
> I select "Linux" for the startup----then the "RedHat" type of
> installer comes up, but it cannot identify the YDL cdrom image on my
> harddrive, nor can it recognize the mounted iso9660 format installer
> CDROM that I created from that YDL image....(I use Toast 4.1 for burning
> CDROMS..)
>
> Previously, when trying to install LinuxPPC-2000 from their official
> cdrom, I'd get the entire installation onto my harddrive completed
> (from the ramdisk boot image on their cdrom installer disk..) then
> when prompted
> to reboot and enter "boot arguments" to thereafterwards use the
> installed Linux system on the external drive---I'd get all sorts of
> error messages, no matter WHAT I tried to use as "boot arguments"...
> It was as if the drive was totally "invisible" to Boot-X.... I'd then
> get "kernal Panic" errors streaming across the screen,
>
> I'm really stumped on this... Am I overlooking something REALLY basic
> here?
>
> Advice appreciated!!
-- --- Ed Jaeger"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
- George Bernard Shaw
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