Boot problems after install Part II

[Mark Walker]

I have a PowerMac 7500 and therefore I'm running BootX.  I did not think I
could boot from the YDL cd with an OldWorld Mac.

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:34:59 -0400 ghannon@cspi.com wrote:

> 
> 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  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
> >  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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