Re: G4-400mHz PowerBook install problems.

Subject: Re: G4-400mHz PowerBook install problems.
From: Michael R Hanulec (hanulec@hanulec.com)
Date: Sat Mar 03 2001 - 09:14:06 MST

just as a follow up.. I left out a few parts of my installation. before I
attempted installing YDL I also installed a Core Mac OS 9.1 installation
on the 100mb HFS partition which I was planning to have yaboot installed
in (but currently don't have).

also.. when I booted off of the YDL screen, a white screen flashed for a
split second before the black screen. this white screen said "Calling
quiesce" in the top left hand corner.

i'm still unable to get the installation running. anyone have any
thoughts? 

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On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Michael R Hanulec wrote:

> Hello..
>
> This evening I attempted to install Yellow Dog Linux Champion Server
> release 1.2.1.  I went about partitioning my systems as follows (w/ Mac OS
> 9.1's Drive Setup, version 2.0.3)
>
> 1. 2G HFS+ partition for Mac OS X
> 2. 2G HFS partition (I was going to use for Mac OS X.. i wanna see what
> its like.. but don't worry i love linux ;)
> 3. 100MB HFS partition which i wanted to use for yaboot
> 4. 2G AIX/Root (ext2) partition for linux
> 5. 128mb AIX/Swap (swap) partition for linux
> 6. 2G HFS partitions for file sharing and later partition mapping
> 7. 2G HFS partitions "
>
> I completed my install of Mac OS 9.1 on the HFS+ partition.  After that I
> inserted my YDL cd and rebooted while holding down the 'c' key.  Upon boot
> a black screen appeared showing the following:
>
> <cut>
> Welcome to Linux, kernel 2.2.17-0.6.1
>
> started at		: 0x01000000
> linked at		: 0xc0000000
> frame buffer at		: 0xa6008000 (phys), 0xa6008000 (log)
> MSR			: 0x00003030
> MID0			: 0x8014c0a4
>
> booting ...
> </cut>
>
> I then sat and waited... and nothing happened, not a sound was made.  I'm
> wondering what I did wrong?  Must I install yaboot into a HFS partition
> first?  Or is my current partitioning schema possibly causing my problem?
>
> If anyone has some insight on what might be wrong I would appreciated some
> feedback.  Btw.. this is the first time I'm attempting to install
> PPC/Linux w/ this cd.. hopefully I don't have a dud.. and unfortunately I
> can't test the cd until Monday @ work.
>
> --
> mike hanulec					http://www.hanulec.com
> hanulec@hanulec.com				http://dev.hanulec.com
> aol im: hanulec					    EFnet irc: hanulec
>
>

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