Re: Installation Problems (or is it something else?)

Subject: Re: Installation Problems (or is it something else?)
From: Conrado W Seibel (conrado@acqualan.com.br)
Date: Fri Feb 25 2000 - 12:50:58 MST

There are some notes about this problem at the end of the installation
guide. As far as I remember, you are supposed to press the F3 key all
the way down (brightness down) and then the F4 key (brightness up)
until you see the boot messages. 

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On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Brian Ackermann wrote:

> I recently got a copy of YDLCS1.1 on cd.  I popped it into my drive, and 
> installed YellowDog as per the 'guide' on the disk onto an external SCSI
> Drive on a Powercenter 210.  Everything worked out fine....
> 
> Then I took that same disk, popped it into my '99 Powerbook, and went
> through the initial startup getting bootX set up, putting vmlinux files in
> the system folder, and such.
> 
> When I launched BootX, it comes up, I choose to boot from ramdisk, no vid
> driver, and press the 'linux' button.  Screen goes blank, and a few lines of
> text scroll on by(maybe 4 or 5) and the last thing I see is a line of text
> that reads:
> 
> booting...
> 
> After this, the computer appears to shut down and I have to start it up.
> 
> I get no error messages or anything, but linux fails to boot.
> 
> I'm running OS 8.6, if that information should prove at all useful.
> 
> If you have any suggestions, please copy them to brianj@subrad.com as I am
> only subscribed to the digest.
> 
> Thanks much in advance...
> 
> Brian J. Ackermann
>

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