2.4.18+ 867 Mhz QuickSilver = totally crazy

[Jeremy Warren]

I get the exact same thing on mine (same model etc), but it works great on
my Powerbook!

If anyone comes up with any solutions let me know.

Jeremy

On 4/9/02 6:50 PM, "Chaz Kelsh" <ckelsh@mac.com> wrote:

> 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!
> 
> --
> 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>
> 
> 
> 
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