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

[Norberto Quintanar]

Have you tried a text install?  IN the kernel arguments box, type,
without quotes, "install text" increase the ramdisk size as
previously suggested.   Then, this is the important part, sacrifice a
bucket of chicken to the Linux install gods.  Keep a second bucket
handy for the video setting gods.  Good luck.

Norberto

--- Andrew <virgule88@videotron.ca> wrote:
> 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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