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: le desordre, c'est moi (il0001@drake.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 10 2000 - 19:31:21 MST
a few more suggestions:
1) if you have yaboot on the first partition of your drive, you may need to
change the line "root=/dev/hda9" in the yaboot.conf file to "root=/dev/hda8"
or "root=/dev/hda7" (i can;t remember which right now. . .)
2) (and this may be easier) did you get the yellowdog CS-1.1-update
(goodies) cd? if not, you can download it from the yellowdog ftp site, or
sourceforge. it's in the ISO directory. this cd is meant for people
installing yellowdog on UMA machines (ibook, imac dv (what i used it on),
and new g4s). all you have to do is put the cd in and reboot while holding
down "C", just like with your macOS cd. it will launch the installer and
then prompt you for the regular CS-1.1 cd for the install. it worked great
on my imac dv, after having lost of difficulty and frustration very much
like your own.
-ian
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> 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...
>
> Which just sat there for ten minutes.
>
> So then I
>
> 8. Replaced vmlinux.ibook.9 with vmlinux.benh.15
> 9. Used BootX App to reboot in Linux
>
> The result?
>
> A black screen with
>
> Welcome to Linux, kernel 2.2.15pre3
> started at : 0x00000000
> linked at : 0xc0000000
> frame buffer at: 0x91800480 (phys), 0x91800480 (log)
> MSR : 0x00000002
> HID0 : 0xc010c0a4
> ICTC : 0x000000000
>
> booting...
>
> Which just sat there for ten minutes.
>
>
> So then I
>
> 10. Replaced the BootX 1.2b3 components with their BootX 1.1.3 breathern
> 11. Used BootX App to reboot in Linux
>
> The result?
>
> A black screen with
>
> Welcome to Linux, kernel 2.2.15pre3
> started at : 0x00000000
> linked at : 0xc0000000
> frame buffer at: 0x91800480 (phys), 0x91800480 (log)
> MSR : 0x00000002
> HID0 : 0xc010c0a4
> ICTC : 0x000000000
>
> booting...
>
> Which just sat there for ten minutes.
>
> So then I
>
> 12. Replaced vmlinux.benh.15 with vmlinux.ibook.9
> 13. 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...
>
> Which just sat there for ten minutes.
>
> So I switched to Yaboot.
>
> 12. I dragged all the BootX components out of the System Folder
> 13. Moved vmlinux.ibook.9 and ramdisk.image.gz to the root of the sole HFS
> partition
> 14. Moved yaboot_0.4 and yaboot.conf to the the root of the sole HFS
> partition
> 15. Changed all references to "zip:" in yaboot.conf to "hd:"
> 16. Rebooted with cmd-opt-o-f down
> 16. Typed boot hd:yaboot_0.4
> 17. Typed install
>
> Whereupon the screen went black and stayed that way.
>
> So I:
>
> 18. Switched vmlinux.ibook.9 with vmlinux.benh.15
> 19. Rebooted with cmd-opt-o-f down
> 20. Typed boot hd:yaboot_0.4
> 21. Typed install
>
> The result?
>
> A black screen with
>
> Welcome to Linux, kernel 2.2.15pre3
> started at : 0x00000000
> linked at : 0xc0000000
> frame buffer at: 0x91800480 (phys), 0x91800480 (log)
> MSR : 0x00000002
> HID0 : 0xc010c0a4
> ICTC : 0x000000000
>
> booting...
>
> Which just sat there for ten minutes.
>
> So now I'm writing to you-all. Got any advice for me?
>
>
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