Subject: Re: G4 Problem (hda DMA timeout)
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Fri Sep 24 1999 - 06:32:41 MDT
Just as with the later rev B&W G3s.. you need to add the noautotune kernel
arguments to BootX. See the Engineers' Notes section of the manual under
Blue G3s for more details.
Dan
> Hello! Yesterday my new 400MHz G4 machine arrived, and I was look forward
> to installing Yellow Dog linux on it. Since it said on the homepage that
> YDL will run out of the box on the 400MHz G4 I didn't even mind to look
> for some special kernels or anything.
>
> When I tried to boot, using the vmlinux file included in the BootX package
> (I think, or it might have been in the install directory) everything
> seemed fine until it came to the 'partition check hda'. The harddrive
> started spinning, and after a little while "DMA timeout" was reported. In
> a few seconds the kernel crashed with a "kernel stack overflow" error.
>
> I would certainly be very happy to get any help, what am I going to do
> with a G4 without being able to run linux? :)
>
> +--------------------------------------+
> | Simon Finne (simonfi@multi.fi) |
> | http://www.multi.fi/~simonfi |
> +--------------------------------------+
>
>
>
Dan
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Yellow Dog Linux
"The Ultimate Companion for a Dedicated Server"
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