boot failure

Wed Apr 21 19:09:01 2004

Well I pulled the G3 card as soon as I got home and things have moved
along a little further, I now get through the boot process to the point
where it says "localhost login" and then the screen goes dark and then
back to login again about three times before a warning message comes up
saying it can't start X server. If I view the report the last line says
no devices detected and if I try to configure it fails and we end up
back at the localhost login prompt again. When I finished the YD install
I chose the generic VGA card and 1 MB of ram and my exact monitor from
the list but this didn't seem to help.

On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 09:30, Thomas Sorensen wrote:
> Norberto Quintanar wrote:
> > Something to try, just to see if it will boot, remove the USB card
> > and the Sonnet G3 card.  There was a thread a while back that
> > diagnosed a problem with G3 cards and YDL.  It was solved by
> > installing YDL without any peripheral cards, then once it booted
> > etc...  Reinstall the cards and deal with them one at a time.
> > HTH
> > Norberto
> > --- Thomas Sorensen <tomsor@comcast.net> 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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> Thanks Norberto:
>     I don't have a USB card but I will pull the G3 card and see if it
> boots and go from there.
> 
> 