Blank screen of death

[Loek]

You are not getting senile with that paritioning thing.
MacOS makes a few (very) small partitions by itself. I guess for booting,
storing virtual memory or something else.

loek

> From: "McLeod, Peter (Yuetsu)" <mcleodp4@anz.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 17:37:15 +1000
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: RE: Blank screen of death
> 
> My problems were all saved with this general HOW-TO (although I had to
> re-partition because somehow I had created a few smaller macintosh
> partitions as well??? - must be going senile !)
> 
> http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/rage.shtml
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McLeod, Peter (Yuetsu)
> Sent: Thursday, 17 October 2002 9:27 AM
> To: 'yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com'
> Subject: Blank screen of death
> 
> 
> (a re-post of my previous message as it's own problem/thread)...
> Last night I tried, for the first time, to get linux running on a mac
> (yellow-dog 2.3).  Firstly I tried entering the GUI install.  I got a blank
> screen.  Then I tried entering the text install.  I got a blank screen.
> Finally I tried the text-safe-mode option and that allowed me in.  I went
> through a very familiar "Red Hat" text install program and chose the text
> login instead of the gui.  On completing the installation I rebotted and got
> the options (l) for linux and (m) for mac os 9 (having followed the
> instructions for a dual boot single disk in the YDL booklet).  I chose l for
> linux and it brought up another boot: prompt (I hope this is yaboot not
> bootx though I can't remember chosing one over the other).  After that brief
> display I got the blank screen again and this is where my adventure ended.
> Does anybody know why or perhaps any idea about how I can find my way to a
> shell.
> 
> I'm running a G4 and I have the "Studio Display" screen (model m7768 if that
> matters).
> 
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