8600 scsi problem

[Irene and/or Robert]

If you are trying to install from a mainstream distribution, you will find that 
some ship with kernels incompatible with the 8600.  Yellow Dog works.  Gentoo 
and (I believe) Mandrake do not.  SuSE works, but the ftp installer is broken.
You could download the YDL installer kernel and installer and try using that.  
If it works then you can either install YDL or use YDL to build your own kernel 
to use to install another distribution.

If it doesn't work, then you've obviously got another problem.  Someone else can 
probably pin this down far better than me, but memory problems, disk problems 
and scsi problems come to mind.  If you have macos installed then you might find 
that Norton Disk Doctor (from Norton Utilities), FWB HardDisk Toolkit, or even 
just Apple System Profiler, Drive Setup or SCSI Probe might help you to identify 
hardware problems if you have any.

If someone has some better advice, listen to them and not me.


Quoting bhairava <bhairava@golannet.ro>:

> i try to install linux on an 8600 pci mac. i manage to boot after the 
> 10th try from diskettes, but when i try to acces the harddisk 
> ("initialize a swap partition" or even "initialize a linux partition" 
> after i "do without a swap partition" hangs the system.
> 
> switching consoles extremely fast after i press the "yes" helps me find 
> out that the error i get is :
> 
> Kernel Panic: acces of bad area  pc c0031880  lr c00318c4  address 
> 9421FFE4  tsk mkfs.ext2/81
> 
> (that is in case i try to initialise the linux partition, hence the 
> mkfs.ext2).
> 
> question is: what can i do ? anyone got that error before ?
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Probably from Irene.  Perhaps from Robert.