Subject: Re: Installing on PM 9600/G4/ATi
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@IainStevenson.com)
Date: Sat Jun 09 2001 - 02:04:11 MDT
Chris,
In the basis that your system has a very similar configuration to mine (ie
mine's a 9600 with a PowerLogix G3 card and a Rage Orion) and I've had the
same problem .... you may need the Benh kernel. For a while, the code
needed to boot old world Macs wasn't completely integrated with the 2.4.x
series kernels giving the boot problem you describe.
Go here: http://penguinppc.org/~benh/ and get 2.4.4 kernel via rsync. If it
would be useful let me know and I'll email my kernel to you.
Iain
on 9/6/01 2:29 am, Chris Ruprecht at chrup@earthlink.net wrote:
> Installation problems again...
>
> I have a slightly non standard 9600. It has a NewerTech MaxPowr
> G4/400 card instead of the original 604e/233 and an ATi Orion (Rage
> 128). The screen is a KDS VS-190 (cheap 19", nothing fancy).
>
> I did the installation of BootX as described and I did select the
> text ramdisk at system startup.
>
> The machine boots up into Linux and displays these first bright
> values, underneath it says 'booting...' and then nothing.
> I did try with no-video on or off, doesn't make a difference.
>
> I still have the IMS Twin Turbo video card around somehwere, but I
> have no screen which connects to it. The old 1710AV sits in the
> corner, it works for about 15 minutes before it switches itself off.
>
> I can't be the only one with such a video card or a NewerTech card
> ... where am I going wrong?
>
> Best regards,
> Chris
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