Re: Problems Installing YDL1.1 on an iBook 300 (tried benh.15, ibook.9, BootX 1.2b3, 1.1.3, yaboot 0.4)


Subject: Re: Problems Installing YDL1.1 on an iBook 300 (tried benh.15, ibook.9, BootX 1.2b3, 1.1.3, yaboot 0.4)
From: Sean Bittinger (bittin_s@cc.denison.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 10 2000 - 17:00:10 MST


> From: Cory Doctorow <doctorow@craphound.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 18:35:47 -0500
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Problems Installing YDL1.1 on an iBook 300 (tried benh.15, ibook.9,
> BootX 1.2b3, 1.1.3, yaboot 0.4)
>
> Hi there. I'm trying to install YellowDog Linux on an iBook.
>
> YELLOWDOG LINUX
> Version: 1.1
>
> IBOOK:
> OS: 8.6
> Partitions: "macos," HFS, 1GB; unallocated, 2GB
> RAM: 96MB
> CPU: PPCG3/300
> Airport card
>
> What I've done so far:
>
> 1. Booted from iMac OS8.6 CD
> 2. Reformatted drive, creating a 1GB HFS partition and leaving the rest
> unallocated
> 3. Installed MacOS 8.6
> 4. Installed Airport Card support
>
> Then I tried BootX:
>
> 5. Installed BootX 1.2b3 (BootX extension in Extensions folder, BootX cdev
> in Pontrol Panels folder), vmlinux.ibook.9 in the System Folder
> 6. Dragged ramdisk.image.gz from the 1.1 CD into the System Folder
> 7. Used BootX App to reboot in Linux
>
> The result?
>
> A black screen with
>
> Welcome to Linux, kernel 2.2.14pre9
> started at : 0x00000000
> linked at : 0xc0000000
> frame buffer at: 0x91800480 (phys), 0x91800480 (log)
> MSR : 0x00000002
>
> booting...

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Did you check no video driver? How about "noautotune"?



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