Subject: $40 of wasted plastic? (or Install Envy) 6400/180
From: Anthony Helm (kajiai@msua.ac.jp)
Date: Thu Sep 06 2001 - 18:36:07 MDT
First of all, a customer should not have to dig around in archive
listserv messages to find out that his machine(s) is not supported,
when information to the contrary is listed on the supported hardware
page.
Here's my story....
I started with a burned download of YDL 1.2 and it worked
beautifully. In fact, I was so impressed, I decided to put money down
on the YDL 2.0 package. Afterall, I do believe in supporting the
efforts of others.
My package arrived the other day and I started the installation...
Here's my system:
P 6400/180 with Sonnet G3/300 upgrade card
136 MB memory
1 SCSI HD 2GB (partitioned with a primary HFS+ OS boot and a smaller
HFS boot partition for Linux)
1 IDE HD 15 GB (with several partitions, but with Linux-ready
partitions early in the sequence)
1 Rage Pro video card
1 USB PCI card
1 Farallon ethernet card in the Comm Slot
Here's the problem:
First install attempt--I ran the YDL BootX installer and expanded it
to the SCSI HFS boot partition. On reboot, I configured BootX with
the X11 ramdisk file (leaving the vmlinux kernel default). Linux
begins the boot, and in the process, the hda reports nothing but
"lost interrupt."
The exact sequence looks something like this:
hda: IBM-DJNA-351520, ATA DISK drive ide0 at )x1020000-0x1020007,
0x1020160 on irq 13
hda: enabling MultiWord DMA 2
hda: IBM-DJNA-351520, 14664MB w/430 kB Cache, CHS=29795/16/63, (u)DMA
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
[SNIP]
hda1 lost interrupt
hda2 hda3 lost interrupt
hda4 hda5 lost interrupt
hda6 hda7 lost interrupt
hda8 hda9 lost interrupt
hda10 hda11 lost interrupt
hda12 hda 13 lost interrupt
and finally, after also reporting errors with USB devices, Linux
tells me that it can't initiate a terminal and ceases. I tried this
with different combinations of the ramdisk image and the kernel, to
no avail.
Next install attempt--I ran the YDL BootX installer and expanded it
to one of the IDE HFS boot partitions. On reboot and ramdisk/kernel
configuration, Linux hangs after about 5 lines.
Some additional notes: I've got LinuxPPC 2000 Q4 currently installed
on my linux-ready partitions and was going to overwrite that install
with YDL 2.0, if I could get to the installer. LPPC boots fine (and
from the CD, too, which the YDL 2.0 disc does not!) and does not
report any "hda: lost interrupt" (though it did during a previous bad
incomplete installation of LPPC).
Can anyone please offer some advice? YDL 1.2 has been a great
performer on an old 7200 in my office, but 2.0 is leaving me very
unsatisfied.
-- Cheers, Anthony===================================== Anthony Helm Computer & IT Coordinator Minnesota State University - Akita 193-2 Oku-Tsubakidai Yuwa-machi, Akita-ken JAPAN 010-1211 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - email: kajiai@msua.ac.jp =====================================
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