8600 scsi problem

[bhairava]

Irene and/or Robert wrote:

>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.
>
>  
>
so far this is the most probable fix to the problem, i'll try ydl after 
new years eve (busy skiing now :D) and tell you all how it went...

>Quoting bhairava <bhairava@golannet.ro>:
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>>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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