Subject: Re: YDL CS 1.2 on G4 (fwd)
From: Kevin Hendricks (khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca)
Date: Wed Mar 15 2000 - 12:36:07 MST
Hi,
This means you have one of the newer sawtooth G4 machines that does *NOT* boot
correctly with BootX. The only way to successfully boot your G4 is to use
yaboot (which is what the CD 1.2 install cd does). I know all of this because
I have one such machine (a brand new G4 450Mhz).
You may in fact have one of the new Rage128Pro cards installed (as opposed to
a regular Rage128).
If so, you will need to recompile a kernel with a small kernel patch I have to
get aty128fb.c to work at any resolution higher than 8bpp.
I also have a slightly modified Xpmac (soon to be released as Xpmac rev 10)
that will recognize this new card and get things accelerated.
Try booting with yaboot and once that is successful let me know and we can read
your /proc/device-tree to find out exactly what video card you have.
Just mail me directly.
Kevin
> Hiyas > > I'm having problems booting my freshly
installed YDL CS 1.2 on my G4. >
> My layout is:
>
> /dev/hda - 10GB IDE Master
> /dev/hdb - 4GB IDE slave
> /dev/hdc - Apple DVD master
> /dev/hdd - Iomega ZIP slave
>
> G4 400/128MB
>
> I booted on the CS 1.2 install CD-ROM and installed YDL on /dev/hdb fine.
> /dev/hdb1 is a 60MB swap partition, /dev/hdb2 is the ext2 fs. The install
> went fine.
>
> I rebooted on my MacOS HDA and installed BootX. I then copied the vmlinux
> file from the "install" directory on my install cd-rom to the System
> Folder on my MacOS HDA. I've instructed BootX to use that vmlinux file and
> have the root partition set to "/dev/hdb2".
>
> When I switch to linux, the kernel starts to load. When it gets to the
> point of doing partition checks, it keeps reporting along the lines of:
>
> hda lost interrupt;
> hda lost interrupt;
> hda lost interrupt;
> hdb lost interrupt;
> hdb lost interrupt;
> hdb lost interrupt;
>
> This just keeps on happening. Its like the IDE bus isn't responding
> correctly. When I boot up directly off the CD-ROM (either install or
> tasty), this problem never occurs.
>
> I'm using the same vmlinux as on those CD-ROMs so I can't figure out where
> I am going wrong! Is there a kernel argument I should be passing so help
> it use the ultra-ata bus in my G4?
>
> Thanks
---- Kevin B. Hendricks Associate Professor of Operations and Information Technology Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario London, Ontario N6A-3K7 CANADA khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca, (519) 661-3874, fax: 519-661-3959
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