Solved: White Screen of Death on new Dual G4

[Grant Chesy]

Just wanted to send in a success report.  I made the changes to =
/usr/sbin/ofpath, and everything worked like magic!

Quick note, I could not get it to boot into linux using OF, I just =
booted the install cd, went far enough in the installation that the =
module was loaded for the hd (the mount partitions option, but just hit =
the back button, and did not actually mount the partitions from within =
the installer), and switched to a diff console, mounted the root =
partition, did a chroot, mounted the rest of the partitions including =
/proc, edited the file, and ran ybin.

Thanks again Jim.

g.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Steed [mailto:jim@gedae.com]
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 8:28 AM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: Solved: White Screen of Death on new Dual G4


Hello all,

Over the past few weeks, I have posted about my problem getting a =
white/grey
screen of death when booting any OS from the Yaboot menu.  After taking =
this
question to (tada) the Yaboot-Users email list, I finally got the answer =
I
needed.

The following is from Ethan Benson, and it worked like a charm for me as =
far
as getting Linux to boot:
http://lists.penguinppc.org/yaboot-users/2002/yaboot-users-200210/msg0001=
4.h
tml.  I didn't exactly follow his directions (perhaps to my own =
detriment)
and instead just did "boot ultra2:9,yaboot" (my boot partition is hda9) =
and
then selected "linux-novideo" from yaboot.  Then I did the =
/etc/yaboot.conf
edits precisely as he said.  After doing this, I can boot Linux, but
unfortunately not MacOSX.

After I informed the $30 YDL support service of this fix Ethan Benson
provided, (and with their memory now awakened) they said the following
should also work and might be easier to follow.  Doing this after Ethan
Benson's fix gives me a system that can boot both Linux and MaxOSX (you =
may
want to start with this, or you may want to start with Ethan's message, =
I
don't pretend to understand the difference between ultra2 and hd in each =
of
these steps).

	From OF
	boot ultra2:,\\yaboot

	+ As Linux boots you'll see the following message:

	modprobe: modprobe: Cant locate module block-major-2

	This is not a bad thing.
	+ Log in as root.
	+ edit /usr/sbin/ofpath
	- Look for the following line:

	newworld()

	Scroll down a little more and you will see

	case "$DEVNODE" in

	- Scroll down a little more until you see a line that looks like:

	hda*)

	- Below that you'll see a line that says:

	echo "hd:$PARTITION"

	- Change it to:

	echo "ultra2:$PARTITION"

	- Save the file and exit.

	+ Run /usr/sbin/ybin

	+ Reboot and YDL should work fine.

Hopefully others stuck at the same point will find this useful.  (Now on =
to
getting around the Network Setup and Radeon 7000 problems with the YDL
install....)

Thanks,
jim steed

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