Subject: Re: Fwd: iMac Help!
From: Sam Moore (sam@ewcreative.com)
Date: Wed Dec 01 1999 - 17:08:52 MST
You probably need a different kernel. I'm successfully using a variant
of 2.2.6 - forgot the exact one, my iMac's at home (typing this on a
7500, also running 2.2.6). Head over to
http://www.imaclinux.net:8080/content/index_html
for some good reading.
Anyway the bottom line is you CAN run Linux 2.2.x on a Rev.D.
"Shawn A. Wilson" wrote:
>
> Gene, ive sent your questions over the lists i know there were a few changes in
> the Rev.D's and i dont know what and how to deal with them, im sure the fine
> folks over these lists do however =)
>
> Thanks,
> -Shawn
>
> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
> Subject: iMac Help!
> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 22:31:00 -0600 (CST)
> From: Gene <gct1@ritz.cec.wustl.edu>
>
> Shawn,
>
> I'm trying to install Yellow Dog on a Rev D 333 iMac, and I'm running into
> some problems. I'm running 8.6; I did the initial partitioning with Drive
> Setup and the subsequent partitioning with pdisk.
>
> I manage to make it all the way through the installer, but when I try to
> boot into Linux without the ramdisk, it gets through a lot of the boot
> process. Right after it checks all the partitions, I get the following
> messages:
>
> request_module [ block_major_8] : root fs not mounted
> VFS - cannot open root device 08:01
> kernel panic: vfs: unalbe to mount root device 08:01
>
> I've tried both CD installs and ftp installs. I'm using the Rev 1 Blue G3
> kernel found at www.linuxppc.com/hardware page.
>
> I'm running off an IBM Deskstar 18 gig drive; I thought the problem was
> that my root partion was too high in the block numbers to mount, but then
> I reformatted my drive and made the root partition the first one. It
> starts at block 704. But it gives me the same error whether I format the
> partition with root as the first partition or the sixth.
>
> do you have any advice? Can you point me to somewhere I can find the
> right answer? I'd really like to get this running, or finally figure out
> that I can't run it. One way or the other, I want some "closure."
>
> Thanks,
> --Gene Tien
>
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