Subject: Re: No way booting the install YDL-2.0 on a G4
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Fri Jun 29 2001 - 23:11:42 MDT
Hi - I have a similar config and I am able to boot from the YDL 2.0
install CD. The only significant differences between our configurations is
that I have the NVidia card and my second HD is another 40 GB drive.
Jim
Jeffrey Barneveld's bits of Fri, 29 Jun 2001 translated to:
>Hello,
>
>My configuration:
>
>G4 Dual-533 128MB RAM
>Radeon 32MB AGP card
>40GB master HDD with MacOS 9.1 & Mac OS X
>12GB slave HDD reserved for YDL 2.0
>CD-RW drive
>
>I just bought the YDL-2.0 distribution and tried to
>boot the install cd. It doesn't work, because it
>stop right after the 'Booting...' message
>
>I've read the mail archive and found that the Radeon
>card is not supported at this point and that the
>option 'install-novideo' should work with this
>configuration. Well.. it does not. It stop at the
>exact same point.
>
>My configuration is quite simple. Has anyone succeeded
>in installing the text-only version of YDL on such a
>configuration?
>
>Jeffrey
>
>
>
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