Subject: Re: G3 2000 Firewire Laptop (Pismo) INSTALL PROBLEM
From: Steve Moitozo II (stephen@moitozo.com)
Date: Sat Sep 23 2000 - 13:51:37 MDT
Thanks All,
EVERYHTING IS WORKING!
I even got my logitech optical wheel mouse to work!
The only thing I can see that still doesn't work is the trackpad.
By the way after I got stuff working according to the instructions at:
http://modctek.com/linux_report.htm Things were still unstable.
So I downloaded "vmlinux" from ftp://ftp.terraplex.com/pub/updates/kernel/
I put it in bootstrap and made a backup of yaboot.conf and changed the
reference to dne's kernel to reference this new kernel. After doing this I
rebooted into linux using the new kernel and LIFE IS GOOD! She's stable
and I can't seem to find anything but the tracpad to be out of the ordinary.
I just got Helixcode's Gnome 1.2 installed, this is nice!
Steve Moitozo
stephen@moitozo.com
http://www.moitozo.com
"The Windows Assimilator"
> From: Josh Davidson <josdav@tfn.net>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 15:30:17 -0400 (EDT)
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: G3 2000 Firewire Laptop (Pismo) INSTALL PROBLEM
>
> Steve,
>
> try boot hd:9,yaboot.tbxi
>
> i had to do it this way on my pismo to get it to work.
>
> -- josh
>
>
>
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Steve Moitozo II wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 23:35:41 -0400
>> From: Steve Moitozo II <stephen@moitozo.com>
>> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>> Subject: G3 2000 Firewire Laptop (Pismo) INSTALL PROBLEM
>>
>> I'm trying to install YDL 1.2 on my brand new G3 PowerBook 400Mhz / 320mg
>> RAM / 10gig / DVD / 56k / firewire / USB / etc.
>> I've read everything I could find about this procedure and have followed it
>> to the "t", yet now matter how many times I try it does not work.
>>
>> Here's what I've done:
>>
>> I have been following the install procedure at:
>> http://modctek.com/linux_report.htm
>>
>> 1) I began by using Drive Setup to initialize the hard drive with 4
>> partitions:
>> Bootstrap MacOS Standard 32mg
>> Macintosh HD MacOS Extended 6000mg (6gig)
>> Linux Root A/UX Root 3040mg
>> Linux Swap A/UX Swap 128mg
>>
>> I did it in this exact order
>>
>> 2) Next I installed a stripped down MacOS on Macintosh HD so I could boot
>> the machine and do the next steps
>>
>> 3) I started the machine (booted from Macintosh HD) and inserted YDL Install
>> disk and copied the following items into the root of Bootstrap:
>> yaboot.tbxi
>> yaboot.conf
>> ramdisk.image.gz
>>
>> 3) I downloaded the patched kernel from
>> http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/vmlinux-2.2.15pre14-ben1.gz
>> Then I downloaded MacGzip from
>> http://helpdesk.uvic.ca/how-to/support/mac/gzip/macgzip113.hqx (because the
>> other link timed out)
>> After all this I dropped the kernel onto MacGzip and it unzipped it. I then
>> copied it to the root of bootstrap
>>
>> 4) I opened yaboot.conf and edited it to read:
>>
>> init-message = "\nWelcome to Yellow Dog Linux!\nHit <TAB> for boot
>> options.\n\n"
>> timeout = 150
>> default = install
>>
>> image = hd:9,vmlinux-2.2.15pre14-ben1
>> label = install
>> initrd = hd:9,ramdisk.image.gz
>> initrd-size = 8192
>> append = "video=aty128fb:vmode:17"
>>
>> 5) I then rebooted the machine while holding down CMD-OPT-O-F
>> Once I got the prompt I typed:
>>
>> boot hd:9,yaboot
>>
>> THIS IS WHERE EVERYTHING FAILS---
>>
>> Each time I get the following error:
>>
>> "can't OPEN: hd:9,yaboot
>> ok
>> 0 > _"
>>
>> So I went on to try different drive numbers I would go back to the
>> yaboot.conf file and change the hd:9,vmlinux-2.2.15pre14-ben1 to
>> hd:11,vmlinux-2.2.15pre14-ben1 (I tried hd:1, hd:2, hd:3, hd:4, hd:5, hd:6,
>> hd:7, hd:8, hd:10, hd:11, hd:12, hd:13, etc)
>>
>> Can anyone help? I would greatly appreciate it. I hope I've given enough
>> info.
>>
>> Steve Moitozo
>>
>> stephen@moitozo.com
>> http://www.moitozo.com
>> "The Windows Assimilator"
>>
>>
>>
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