Subject: Re: Yikes G4 install (newbie)
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Sat Feb 05 2000 - 13:27:32 MST
You need to have: hda=noautotune and hdb=noautotune in the BootX kernel
arguments dialog.
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to YDL, and Linux in general, and I'm trying to install it
> on a Yikes G4-- the first time I installed it I never persuaded it to
> fully start up (it would kernel panic and reboot whenever I tried to start
> linux from bootx). So I just reinstalled, using the latest bootx and the
> ramdisk and kernel from the CD (CS 1.1). Now it doesn't do a kernel panic
> anymore, but after it checks all the USB stuff and the drives, it says:
>
> VFS: mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
> freeing unused kernel memory 156k init 32k prep
>
> and just hangs there. I tried replacing the CD-version kernel in my
> system folder with the vmlinux.ibook.9 kernel off the website, but that
> did the same thing (I remembered to unzip it this time, too). I also
> tried playing with the options in bootx.
>
> Is there more stuff I have to do to replace the kernel than just
> to switch the one in the system folder? Should I do a whole reinstall
> with the vmlinux.ibook.9 kernel instead? Has anyone run into this kind of
> thing before? Many thanks for any thoughts or comments.
>
> David
>
> PS- I have a Yikes G4 350 with an extra hard disk for linux and no other
> special add-ons.
>
>
Regards,
Dan
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