Subject: RE: At the end of my installation rope!
From: OpticNerve, Inc. - Information (opticnerve_info@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Sep 06 2001 - 14:19:19 MDT
Hey Larry:
Thanks for the feedback. I have not waited more than a few minutes. I will
just let the thing sit for a while.
As for the ZIP disk... Yes it is formatted. What do you mean "how is it
formatted?"
Thanks again.
Tal
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Blodgett [mailto:blodgett@telocity.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 1:09 PM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Re: At the end of my installation rope!
My guess is that the initial CD boot is trying to figure out what
some device or PCI card is. In some cases this takes an unusually
long time. I one time waited for 10 to 15 minutes and it finally
recovered. Don't ask me why the long wait, I don't know. Sorry if
this is not helpful and you have waited for hours. Also, I know that
you have reburned the CD but have you checked or verified the CD with
CDR Scanner on the machine that is booting the CD? Is this a
standard CDR or a CDRW? I agree that this should all be easy.
>It looks like the machine is still in boot process ? have you waited
>or just hit enter ? ive seen YDL machines just sit there till you
>hit enter. Also you could try to boot into single user mode: at lilo
>type: linux --single
>
>-D
>
>"OpticNerve, Inc. - Information" wrote:
>
>>We have this Blue/White G3 that has literally been used as a paperweight
>>since March 2000. The machine was purchased in October of 1999, so I guess
>>this makes it a "NEW WORLD" system.
>>
>>The machine has 128MB RAM, a 400MHz CPU, and runs MacOS 8.6.
>>
>>A brand new 20GB IDE drive is THE ONLY THING that has ever been added to
>>this machine, expressly for the purpose of installing YD2.0.
>>
>>The new 20GB IDE drive has been formatted into 4 equal partitions.
>>
>>In an effort to breath new life into this machine, I am attempting to
>>install YD2.0, which I have been told should be a simple process (yea
>>right). We are a 100% RH Linux shop, so getting this machine
up-and-running
>>as a Linux box will make me look great.
>>
>>So, to this end, I downloaded the ISOs for YD2.0 and burned them to CDs.
>>
>>Following the Engineering instructions from the YellowDog web site, I made
>>sure that a ZIP disk was in the ZIP drive.
>>
>>I restart the machine and hold down the 'c' key. The system boots to the
CD
>>ROM.
>>
>>At this point I think I am going to be a hero.
>>
>>And then I get the following message, and everything comes to a halt.
>>
>>---BEGIN MESSAGE---
>>Welcome to yaboot version 1.1.1
>>boot: install
>>Loading Kernel...
>> Elf32 Kernel loaded
>>Loading ramdisk...
>>
>>via_calibrate_decr:decrementer_count = 249346 (1496078 ticks)
>>Console: colour dummy device 80x25
>>Calibrating delay loop... 796.26 BogoMIPS
>>Memory: 122752 available (1784 kernel code, 2748k data, 188k init)
>>[c0000000, ebf00000]
>>Dentry hash table entries: 16384 (order 5, 1024k)
>>Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 5, 512k)
>>Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k)
>>UFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
>>POSIX confomance testing by UNIFIX
>>PCI: probing PCI Hardware
>>Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
>>Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
>>NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0
>>NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
>>IP protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
>>TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536)
>>NET4: Appletalk .18 for Linux NET4.0
>>Initialing RT netlink socket
>>Starting kswapd v 1.5
>>clgen: Driver for Cirrus Logic based graphic boards, v1.5.2
>> Couldn't find PCI device
>>aty128fb:detected XCLK=0x2711, ref_div=0x1b
>>aty128fb:Rage128 RE (PCI) [chip rev 0x2] 16m 128-bit SDR SGRAM (1:1)
>>Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
>>fb0: ATY Rage128 frame buffer device on /pc1@80000000/ATY,Rage128x@10
>>aty128fb:detected XCLK=0x2711, ref_div=0x23
>>fb0: ATY Rage128 frame buffer device on
>>/pc1@80000000/pci-bridge@d/ATY,Rage128o@2
>>IBM_E15: initializing
>>IBM_E15: could not find S3 864 in system
>>input0: Macintosh mouse button emulation
>>Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
>>---END MESSAGE---
>>
>>I have literally spent the last 48 hours searching for some assistance all
>>over the YelloDog web site, the mailing lists, and even through Google.
>>Unfortunataly, I am still stuck. I even took the time to re-download the
>>ISOs and re-burn them. Still nothing. So, I am hoping that someone can at
>>least tell me what all of this means.
>>
>>Any input whatsoever would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Tal Golan
>>opticnerve_info@yahoo.com
>>
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