boot failure

[Tom Sorensen]

Thanks for your response. I've been trying to get this install to work
for a month and this is actually my second post of this message. I can't
upgrade the video because there is only one pci slot that is now
occupied by my wireless card. One other person replied earlier that he
has the same performa model and his works fine, he suggested it may be
my G3 upgrade card. I would love to get this install to work I have
3.0.1 running on my iBook twin usb that I'm typing on now and would like
the other machine for my home desktop. Hope I can get more responses
than I did with the first post. Thanks again.

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 21:02, Eric Schwarzkopf wrote:
> You may need to upgrade your video card. I know from my own experience that my 
> old PowerComputing Power Center 150 with its on board video card only had 
> 512kb of memory, so YDL would always lock up on me as well, until I bought a 
> used PCI video (4MB) card. Check out ebay I found mine fairly cheap, it took 
> awhile before I got the winning bid, but they are out there.
> Good luck
>  
> On Tuesday 20 April 2004 03:00, Thomas Sorensen wrote:
> > Hardware:
> > Performa 6360
> > Sonnet G3 300mhz card
> > 136 mb ram
> > 15 gig hd (10 gig os 9.2.2, 5 gig free space)
> > I have installed 3.0.1 using the old world instructions with no problems,
> > got to the finishing stages and chose generic (default) vid and then my
> > exact monitor, restarted the system and at boot X as instructed unchecked
> > th e disc image, changed from the boot kernel to the other and put in hda 8
> > as instructed for the root device. The problem is now when I try to boot
> > into linux I get about half way through the first page of boot script and
> > everything locks up, the last commands on the screen are as follows if
> > helpful:
> > WMU: mapin
> > WMU: mapin_ram done
> > WMU: setio
> > WMU: exit
> > setup-arch: enter
> > setup-arch: bootmem
> > arch: exit
> > and at this point it locks up solid with no cursor or anything. I have
> > tried to re-install once and got error messages about vgscan failed and
> > ended up having to delete the swap and main partions and start all over but
> > with the same results. I am no IT guy so I'm trying to provide as much info
> > as I can, if anything else would be helpful I will try to provide it but my
> > Linux experience is very nominal. Thanks
> >
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