2.4.18+ 867 Mhz QuickSilver = totally crazy

[Chaz Kelsh]

The 2.4.18 kernel is definitely broken, at least for 867mhz 
Quicksilvers. My Quicksilver has a 15" ADC display connected to its 
GeForce2 MX. When I try to boot off my (purchased) YDL 2.2 CD with the 
2.4.18 kernel, it always crashes silently at some point during startup 
or the steps leading up to the actual installation. (The actual command 
I type into yaboot is "install-gui hdc=ide-scsi".)

With the "install-text22" option, the installation works up to the 
installation step, at which I select the "Everything" option and the 
progress window appears. Here it stops silently, forcing a reboot. (The 
install-gui22 option does the same thing. It isn't able to start X.)

My last option was the "hd-install". I copied ramdisk-x11.image.gz to 
the drive at the root of every partition and in all OS 9 System Folders 
(renamed to ramdisk.image.gz). Then I downloaded a kernel from 
ppckernel.org and did the same thing (renaming it to vmlinux). At the 
boot prompt yaboot prints this:

boot: hd-install
Please wait, loading kernel...
hd:2,\\vmlinux: Unknown or corrupt filesystem
boot:

Dan, do you think these problems are easily fixable? I would greatly 
appreciate a 2.2.1 ISO that would boot and install (even if the install 
was under the 2.2 kernel).

Thanks very much!

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Chaz Kelsh
ckelsh@mac.com

On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 06:13  PM, man0negra wrote:

> hi,
>
> i posted this afternoon, but it seems my postfix was not working in the
> right way.
>
> I installed yellowdog 2.2 this afternoon, i spent almost all day trying
> to understand how to solve some problems.
>
> Let me explain step by step:
>
> I was using this machine (G4 867 nvidia Geforce superdrive ) with
> yellowdog 2.1, using two different kernels : the 2.4.10-12 that came
> with 2.1 relaese and a 2.4.16 i compiled by myself. the machine always
> worked sweet, and i loved yellowdog.
>
> Today i tried to install ydl 2.2 on a clean partition and the tragedy
> began :))
>
> first of all, there was no way to let the installer work using the gui
> or the text based mode under 2.4.18 kernel.
> it freezes everytime, randomly, without a good reason. I tried several
> times to install, bu there's no way..
> So i tried installing with the install-text22 and everything was fine,
> it installed and all..
> <snip>