boot failure

[Tom Sorensen]

Unfortunately the location of the machine is going to require the
wireless card. The built in video ram is 1 MB which should be adequate I
would think. Oh well I will just have to see if anyone else has tried
this setup. Thanks

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 21:34, Eric Schwarzkopf wrote:
> Well I know that I was able to install YDL on my old mac prior to doing any 
> upgrading but it would always crash and lock up once it tried loading the 
> desktop. I gave up until I upgraded my processor ( I have a Newer Technology 
> G3 300MHz) and the video card, after that it works fine. If you don't need or 
> can do without the wireless card get yourself the video card, I really think 
> it will help.
> Good luck
> 
> On Tuesday 20 April 2004 05:26, Tom Sorensen wrote:
> > 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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