Boot problems after install Part II

Thu Aug 29 09:39:00 2002

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Mark,

     This may get you out of the dilemna.

     I've seen installs at 2.1 that didn't get the boot partition created
correctly,
and I never bothered to figure out what was wrong, but here was my
workaround.

     Put in the YellowDog install CD and boot from the CD.
     At the yaboot prompt hit tab to get the options.

     enter
     cd-linux  root=/dev/sda7   (may be cd_linux ?)

     It should boot your machine.

     Then go to /etc and edit yaboot.conf.
     If it does not have a defaultos, or has defaultos=NONE, make it linux.
     Check that the partitions it is using are correct for your system.

     Then run ybin as root.  If it suceeds, it doesn't give you any
feedback.
     If ybin complains  about no filesystem then or similar then

     hformat /dev/sda4    - creates the filesystem on /dev/sda4

     then run ybin again.

Then when you reboot, you should be OK. (at least until you boot into MAC
OS - that
has sometimes messed up my system, and I fixed it through this same
process.)
Here is the yaboot.conf that works on my system.

(See attached file: yaboot.conf)

I hope this works.  If so, let me know and I'll submit it to Terrasoft and
see if I can
get a T-shirt.   Who knows, it may already be on the web site.

Gary Hannon.
 CSPI

Mark Walker <walkermh@earthlink.net> on 08/28/2002 11:53:21 PM

Please respond to yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com

To:   yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
cc:    (bcc: Gary Hannon/CSP)
Subject:  Re: Boot problems after install Part II

I was able to see this much of the error message after it gave up trying to
load the kernel:
dev 08:04 blksize=512 blocknr=14578641 sector=14578641 size=512 count=1
hfs_fs: unable to read block 0x00de73d1 from dev 08:04
attempt tp access beyond end of device
08:04: rw=0, want 7289321, limit 20480

My boot loader is on sda4 (20MB), swap is sda6 (256MB), ext2 is on sda7
(6.8GB)
sda1 & 2 are Mac related as is sda5 which is MacOS 9 (1.5GB)
Sdb is a 4.5 GB drive in Mac HFS

Thinking it might be scsi termination related I've tried every possible
combination following manufacture direction and making some up as I go.  I
also moved the drives to different positions on the scsi cable.  I also
made
sda scsi id 1 instead of 0.  I also tried it with just sda connected.

sda is a Western Digital WDE 9100 9.1GB and sdb is a Fujitsu 3045 4.5 GB.

Thanks for everyone's input to date.

>
> 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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