RE: Can't boot RAM disk on upgraded 9600


Subject: RE: Can't boot RAM disk on upgraded 9600
From: Pete Peters (ppeters914@home.com)
Date: Tue Oct 02 2001 - 14:55:12 MDT


Whoops. My apologies for not following up on this. Anyway, FWIW, my
settings are:

PPC 9500 w/ PowerLogix G3/400 card
YDL 1.2.1 w/ 2.2.18 kernel I compiled from source from kernel.org
BootX v1.2.2
 - enable "Set G3 cache", all others disabled
 - check "No Video Driver"
 - no kernel arguments

Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Peters [mailto:ppeters914@home.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 8:23 AM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Cc: adrian@glos-grouphomes.demon.co.uk
Subject: RE: Can't boot RAM disk on upgraded 9600

Adrian,

It is definitely the ATI Rage Orion card. I had the exact same issue w/
YDL 1.2.1 on my 9500, which has a PowerLogix G3 card. For me, it
required a specific combination of the BootX and PowerLogix control
panel settings. I'll check mine when I get home, and email you what I
have.

Cheers.

Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: Ruprecht, Chris [mailto:cruprech@compucom.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 7:11 AM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: RE: Can't boot RAM disk on upgraded 9600

Hi Adrian,

I have a similar configuration. The problem is the Ati Rage Orion, I
believe. I have tried what ever I could and asked the question of what
to do on here a number of time. I have not gotten any answers, not from
TerraSoft or anybody else for that matter. I find this extremely
frustrating, specially sind I actually bought the CDs when they came
out. I now have some expensive coasters ...

Regards,
Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian Finn [mailto:adrian@glos-grouphomes.demon.co.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 8:58 AM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Can't boot RAM disk on upgraded 9600
>
>
> Hello
>
> Can anyone help me.. I have YDL 2.0 and the following hardware:
>
> Power Macintosh 9600
> 216MB RAM
> Formac 400Mhz G3 upgrade card.
> ATI Rage Orion 16MB graphics card.
> Keyspan USB card
> Sonnet Tempo ATA interface card (latest firmware):
>
> 1 x 40GB ATA drive (MacOS 9.1)
> 1 x 4GB SCSI drive (blank for YDL)
>
>
> When I try to boot either of the RAM disk images, the screen
> blanks and I
> get the following:
>
> Welcome to Linux Kernel 2.2.19 - 1k
>
> Started at: 0x00000000
> Linked at: 0xc0000000
> Framebuffer at: 0x96008000 (phys), 0x96008000(log)
> MSR: 0x00000042
> HID0: 0x0291c22c
> ICTC: 0x00000000
>
> Booting Linux.....
>
>
>
> It then hangs for several minutes not doing anything, after a
> while it will
> reboot itself.
>
> I suspect this is something to do with the Sonnet card as I
> successfully
> installed LinuxPPC in the past when I had 2 SCSI Hard Drives.
>
> Do I need to use another Kernel or do something else?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Adrian Finn
>
>




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