Subject: CS 1.1 Install Troubles
From: Mike Beattie (mbeattie@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 30 1999 - 20:55:52 MDT
I have a B&W Power Mac G3 (rev 2) that I have been trying to install YD
Linux on for the past week. I have downloaded the updated kernel from the
YD FTP site, but I am still having what appears to be the same trouble with
even loading the installer.
Here's what I have done:
- installed a rather small (3.2 GB) second IDE drive
- formatted it with two partitions (1 400 MB MacOS, 1 2.8 GB Unallocated)
- installed MacOS 8.6 in the MacOS partition
- installed the BootX App and BootX Extension in the new drive (in the
control panels folder and extensions folder, respectively)
- placed the ramdisk.image.gz file and updated kernel in the system folder
of the new drive
- set my startup disk to the MacOS partition of the new drive
- restarted (from the new drive, choosing to go to MacOS from the BootX
prompt)
- opened the BootX App and selected "no video driver" and "Use RAM Disk"
- clicked on the Linux button
What happens next? It seems that I start to load linux, but I run into some
sort of trouble in the booting process. Here are the messages which I think
are describing the problem:
Partition Check:
hda:hda: timeout waiting for DMA
Kernel stack overflow in process...
..
Instruction DUMP: 614aff00...
In swapper task - not syncing
Rebooting in 180 seconds
I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, but if someone has a suggestion for
any faults in my procedure, I would love to hear them. Is it just
impossible to make this work on the newer Blue and White G3s? Thanks in
advance.
--Until next time.
Mike Beattie
mbeattie@andrew.cmu.edu
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