Subject: Re: CS 1.1 Install Troubles
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Mon Aug 30 1999 - 21:13:24 MDT
See our 1.1 manual. (available for free from the web site under Support)
It talks about the B&W G3 rev2 DMA problem and how to fix it.
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Mike Beattie wrote:
> 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
>
Dan
Yellow Dog Linux for Apple G3 and PowerPC
email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
website: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
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