Subject: Re: problems with new iBook
From: Steve Gula (gulajs@jmu.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 01 2000 - 10:12:42 MST
on 11/1/00 3:28 AM, Jeremy Hansen at jeremy@xxedgexx.com wrote:
>
> Just curious ifd there's any known problems with the new iBooks. For some
> reason when I boot, it just saying booting... and that's it. I'm trying
> to just book from the cd. Anything I should know about? I'm new to Linux
> on PPC in general.
>
> Thanks
> -jeremy
>
> --
> Out of sight is out of mind.
> -- Arthur Clough
>
>
Ok, if you need to boot the install program from the CD. Get the new kernel
from yellowdoglinux.com . I odn't remember where it is, but search for it
and put it in your MacOS system directory. And then use yaboot to boot the
CD using a yaboot.conf something like this :
init-message = "\nWelcome to Yellow Dog Linux!\nHit <TAB> for boot
options.\n\n"
timeout = 150
default = install
image = hd:9,\\\\vmlinux
label = install
initrd = cd:,\\\\ramdisk.image.gz
novideo
Now I had the problem of once actually getting to the install program, it
wouldn't find the CD to use as the source for the install. It would just sit
there. And it would fail to mount my HFS partition claiming it didn't exist.
So I had to do a net install. Ever after doing that, when I try to boot into
YDL, I choose the kernel and then it disaplys some info about framebuffer
(there's about 5-6 lines of text).. followed by a "booting....." line.. but
it _never_ gets passed that. So yes, there are problems. I have yet to get
into linux on my 466MHz iBook.
--Steve "Loco3KGT" Gula
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