Subject: Re: G4 Problem (hda DMA timeout)
From: Kevyn Shortell (kevyn@apple.com)
Date: Fri Sep 24 1999 - 11:42:58 MDT
Add "hda=noautotune" to your bootX args. =)
Kevyn
At 10:22 AM +0300 9/24/99, Simon Finne wrote:
>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 |
>+--------------------------------------+
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Kevyn Shortell Worldwide Developer Relations
Technology Manager Apple Computer, Inc
kevyn@apple.com http://developer.apple.com/
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