YDL 2.2 and PPC 7500

[Mark Walker]

Check and re-check the termination of the drives and checking again.
I have two PCI cards, video and USB.  If the termination check does not
resolve it, I'll remove the PCI cards.
The RAM is not interleaved due to the G3 card; which does not like
interleaving RAM.
I'm currently leaning to a junk iso image, will be getting on from
tuxcds.com
Thanks for the input

> 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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