Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Wed, 28 Jul 1999 04:02:28 -0600 (MDT)
Try using "No Video Driver".
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Radar O'Reilly wrote:
> Has anyone else tried to install Champion Server 1.1 from CD on a 7200?
> (2 gig drive, with a 500M linux partition and 96 megs of RAM)
>
> BootX 1.1.1 seems to be giving me problems. When I launch the app, with vmlinux
> and ramdisk in the appropriate places, after selecting "Linux, it shuts down
> MacOS and starts booting into linux. I get a screen with 3-5 lines of bootup
> messages, which just ends in "Booting...." and then hangs. This happens with or
> without "no video driver" checked (and, of course, booting from ramdisk).
>
> When I try to do it from the Extension, the monitor powers off. I haven't yet
> tried to get the output to a serial port (and thence to another computer) to
> see if it's actually doing anything, yet, but it isn't behaving, either way.
> I've tried it both with the "No video driver" checked and unchecked.
>
> The weird thing about this is that I then tried to install LinuxPPC R4 from CD,
> and that version of BootX (1.0b6, I think), vmlinux and/or the ramdisk image
> worked fine. I'd rather run the Champion Server (if for no other reason than I
> like the install dialogs better; I tried to install CS with the LinuxPPC RH
> installer, but, well, I think that would have required more tweaking than I was
> in a mood to do =), but I just can't seem to make it happy.
>
> I've tried resetting the PRAM...no go.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
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>
>
Dan
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
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