YDL 2.2 and PPC 7500

[Robert Serphillips]

I've installd 2.2 on 2 8500's. Errors like this are usually related to
hardware problems. Linux will uncover all sorts of hw misconfigurations
that the macos never seems to have a problem with. 

Make sure all you HD's are terminated properly. With those larger drives
chances are they're 60 or 80 pin with a 50 pin adapter. Make sure
they're terminated on the adapter and on the drive itself. Double check
by looking up the data sheets. Next remove all unneeded pci cards. You
can add them in after the install. 

Don't check the no video driver. If you have a cache enabler loading at
bootup (before bootx) then the cache is enabled and bootx doesn't need
to do anything.  

When you format you drives with drive Setup, leave them as 1 large
unallocated partition and let the installer repartition it.

Ram was also a huge problem for me. If you interleaved try
uninterleaveing (SP) them, or moving them around

I think that about covers all of the problems I've run into with these
machines, besides burning a junk ISO image.

The install is the most frustrating part. Don't give up. Once your up
and running linux is extremely stable granted you've worked out any  hw
problems.

Good luck
-Rob



On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 21:52:40 -0700
Mark Walker <walkermh@earthlink.net> wrote:

> My second attempt to find a solution.
> Will YDL 2.2 run on a 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 and no known hardware problems?
> Mac OS 9.0.4 runs fine, yes that is a relative fine, the sole reason
> for installing Linux.
> If  you have had success in installing YDL on a system similar to
> this, I would appreciate your help, suggestions, or even laughter,
> just no silence. I have had experience installing Linux on Intel boxes
> with no problems. When attempting to install, using BootX with the
> text ramdisk (the video ramdisk will not run) selected, G3 cache
> enabled and selected, Force video setting selected and using vmLinux
> 2.2 kernel (2.4 will not get past the boot sequence before dying). 
> The problem that prior to finishing installing, I get an error message
> stating a Segmentation Fault occurred and to reboot.  This can occur
> during initial setup, formatting the partitions(on the 9.1 GB drive:
> 10MB boot, 256 Swap, and 6883 ext2.  1.5 is for the Mac OS) or while
> installing the packages. I've been at this on and off for about a
> month.  I've downloaded and burned 2.2 three times (Win2000 boxes),
> checksum ran fine. I can find nothing on any of the Linux for PPC
> sites.
> 
> I would greatly appreciate any help
> Mark
> Frustrated Wanting to run Linux on my Mac.
> 
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