YDL install troubles on a Mac 5400 PowerPC....any ideas?

[Andrew]

On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 14:42, concertracker wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I've been posting to the newbies list with this issue, but I was hoping
> in the wider audience here someone might have direct experience with
> installing on a Power Mac 5400 and the problem I keep having.  Here's
> the skinny:
> 
> Hardware:  90MB RAM, 1.6 GB HD, PowerPC 120MHz chip
> Software:  Mac OS 7.5.3, YDL v3.0
> Partitions: 1 unallocated ~800MB, 1 Macintosh HFS ~800MB
> Situation:  After selecting Linux in BootX (with all files and settings
> in place from the YDL Setup Guide) I get about two screens worth of
> process and status information and then everything hangs after these
> lines:
>    Yellow Dog install init version 8.0 starting
>    mounting /proc filesystem... done
>    mounting /dev/pts (unix98 pty) filesystem... done
>    could not set new controlling tty
>    checking for NFS root filesystem... no
>    trying to remount root filesystem read write ETX2-fs warning: chec
>      kline reached, running e2fsck is recommended
>    done
>    checking for writeable /tmp.....yes
>    running install....
>    running /sbin/loader
> 
> Is there anything telling in those lines as to why it is hanging up (or
> should I look higher up in the list)?  If not, any ideas as to what
> else might be going wrong and how to diagnose/fix it?  Any help is
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joel
> 
> 

This might be fruitless but try to increase the RAM Disk size, in BootX
to something like 16384 (8162 or more). I suggest this because my
attempt-to-install-Debian3.0r1 wouldnt start with the default RAM disk
size. I loaded fine after I raised the RAM Disk size then, it could
'see' my SCSI disks... I came back to the Ol' doggy! ;)

-Andrew

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