Re: Yikes G4 install (newbie)


Subject: Re: Yikes G4 install (newbie)
From: David Minot Weld (dweld@Stanford.EDU)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2000 - 17:40:02 MST


I do have that in there. sorry, should have mentioned it before. is
there anything else you know of that might cause this behavior?

thx,

David

On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Dan Burcaw wrote:

>
> 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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