Subject: Re: 6500 will not boot when Sonnet G3/400 is active.
From: pete (pete@linuxfreemail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 16 2001 - 18:23:04 MDT
Did you ever get any good responses to this one? I'm about to try installing
YDL on an 8600 with a Sonnet upgrade processor...just wondering if there's
anything I should watch out for!
- pete -
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> From: Carl Kehley <sparky@hazleton.net>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 21:17:45 -0400
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: 6500 will not boot when Sonnet G3/400 is active.
>
> Any ideas on this one? I installed YDL 2.0 on a 6500/225 upgraded to a
> 400 G3, 1MB backside cache, 128Mb ram. Mac OS 9.1 resides on a 4gig
> Seagate SCSI drive, YDL is installed on a 3Mb IDE drive (original for
> the machine). If I boot into Linux (BootX, latest from the YDL site)
> using the 225mhz processor, everything is fine (at least as fine as a
> 603e with no L2 cache could be). If I change the file type on the
> Sonnet extension, as per several messages on the list a while ago, and
> use the G3, the system will not boot. I get a hda:interrupt lost
> repeater. I'm using the stock kernel for 2.0, 2.2.19-1 I believe. I
> saw some messages concerning this problem doing a search of the
> archives. Would it be worth trying to go to a 2.4 kernel, or would I
> just be wasting my time? Any help, please? I'm falling asleep watching
> KDE load.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Carl Kehley
>
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