Subject: Re: OS 9 Driver Question (Was Please Help with G4 Install)
From: Sean Hogston (it.clt@s1.com)
Date: Sat Feb 05 2000 - 15:39:48 MST
Just an update.....
My G4AGP has a 27gig (os9) and a 10gig (ydl)
I was getting the black screen when i selected linux and it ended up being
that my brain was in park when i downloaded the updated kernel from YDL and
finally realizes I needed to uncompress it. After I did that it came up just
fine.
Sean
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>From: peter cervieri <peter@front57.com>
>To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>Subject: Re: OS 9 Driver Question (Was Please Help with G4 Install)
>Date: Fri, Feb 4, 2000, 9:48
>
> i too am about to grapple with a g4 install. i've gotten as far as
> installing boot x. i have 2 channel scsi so i have 2 hard drives.
> one will be all my mac stuff, the other linux. i get the same
> problem with boot x when it prompts me to choose an OS and i choose
> linux it just brings me to that black screen and does nothing.
>
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>>Does YDL have this problem on all machines under OS 9, or is it just
>>with G4s? Or is it the ATA driver? I'm about to begin an
>>installation on a SCSI machine and would like to know whether or not
>>I can install OS 9 on the drive. Or, for that matter, whether it is
>>necessary to use OS 9.
>>
>>Best Regards,
>>
>>John Haffner
>>
>>> if you see the driver version (3.2.4 i believe) from OS 9's Drive
>>>Setup Yellow Dog will not recognize your ATA.
>>>Use an older version of drive setup to "downgrade" it (it's under an option,
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