Re: G4-400mHz PowerBook install problems.

Subject: Re: G4-400mHz PowerBook install problems.
From: Michael R Hanulec (hanulec@hanulec.com)
Date: Mon Mar 05 2001 - 04:43:16 MST

i only have 128mb of ram. after doing some reading if found this link on
the linuxppc web site:

http://linuxppc.org/documentation/2000Q4/black_screen.php3

i believe this may solve my problem BUT i'm not sure exactly where to
specify kernel arguments (by using the append="" syntax) in the
yaboot.conf file.

does anyone know where i should do that?? 

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On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Darren Graham wrote:

> I have a had similar problem caused by the 1GB RAM I had installed, when I
> reduced it to 512MB YDL booted fine.
> How much RAM do you have installed?
> Darren
>
>
> At 23:40 02/03/01 -0500, you 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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