Subject: Re: X & Video probs on G3 A-I-O
From: Vanja Bucic (vanjab@UDel.Edu)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2000 - 11:55:45 MST
John Boyarsky wrote:
>
> Well after another 20 tries i STILL cannot get YDL up and running. First
> off Thanks to whoever told me to make the USR partition bigger, that
> kinda worked and I cen get past the mouse config problem.
>
> But NOW I cannot get past XConfigurator. Here's what happens:
> Settings: Mac set to 800x600, 24bit before starting BootX. It's G3
> All-In-One with 6mb Vram on ATI Rage (1 or II) chips.
> I go thru install, and get thru where it tells me tto set "/sda7"
> and boot partition in BootX. that's all fine and good. Then XConfig
> identifies my video as Mach64, etc. I hit YES or No (because it fails
> BOTH with and without "No Video Drivers" checked in bootX.) and it
> starts to install something, but immediately gets an error in
> XConfigurator install. In that half second I can see it trying to start
> installing fbdev or something like that..
> Upon restart, i get
> "Warning:unable to open an initial console
> kernel panic: No init found. Try passig init=option to kernel"
>
> Again i get the same thing with and without "No video Driver selected in
> BootX"
>
> other info: Partitions--> 128m/swap, 10m/boot, 400m/root, 200m/home,
> 400m/usr, 159m/var, 100m/tmp. I had it up once before, but never
> since...
Where is yout root partition (the one that goes with / ).
And is 400M enough for /usr partition?
I have All-in-one and never had any big problems (now running CS1.2).
> John Boyarsky
> Still a newbie, but hoping to get things running and get over that...
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