Boot problems after install

Iain Stevenson yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue Aug 27 02:05:01 2002


You should try booting into single user mode.  When the BootX screen comes 
add "single" (no quotes) to the kernel arguments and then boot.  If that 
works then you can start the other daemons manually and debug from there.

  Iain



--On Monday, August 26, 2002 7:28 pm -0700 Mark Walker 
<walkermh@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Background: PPC 7500 with 320 MB RAM, 2 SCSI HHD (9.1 GB and 4.5GB),
> Voodoo 3 2000, a Sonnet G3 400 upgrade card, a Belkin USB pci card.
> I had problems installing from a burn iso.  I bought a retail set of YDL
> 2.3.
> Still had the install bombing (segmentation fault), so after removing all
> hardware to include the processor upgrade, rearranging the hard drives and
> playing with scsi termination.  I finally settled on a memory problem.  I
> started yanking out memory modules until I was down to one 128 MB dimm.
> Install worked this time.
> Now the new problem:  When I boot into Linux I get the boot screen (all
> text) that shows what is loading.  When it get to a certain point, prior
> to the login screen, it gets stuck on one process and starts scrolling
> real fast, too fast to read.  I not sure how else to describe it.
>
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