YDL 4.0 on G3 B&W (yosemite)

[Oldmoose]

OK, so no sooner do I send this message but I see this posting on another message board when tracking down the "no disk in drive" message:

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-May/3781.html

It seems that Yellowdog didn't like the zip drive I have connected.  I unplugged the cable from the back and the system booted straight up.  I'm going to try reinstalling tomorrow with normal sized partitions and see how that goes.

Is there not support for zip drives in yellowdog?

--glen

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Oldmoose 
  To: yellowdog-general at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com 
  Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 10:27 PM
  Subject: YDL 4.0 on G3 B&W (yosemite) 


  Owen said:

    Hmmm, the first couple errors dont mean much... but to get the thing
    booting.

    boot single usermode
    mount -o remount,rw /
    /sbin/chkconfig kudzu off
    sync
    exit

  I don't see where to enter this.  I get prompted twice for entries on bootup.  First, to specify if I want to boot of the cd or the disk, and second the normal boot prompt which defaults to "linux" if I do nothing.

  Do I need to interrupt the boot process somehow to type this command?  

  I'm installing YellowDog 4.0 on a Mac G3 B&W (Yosemite) and had a ton of problems.  I put in a brand new 120 Gb WD disk and tried first with the default formatting, but the install kept hanging, or, if I used the text install, aborting.  Only when I created a series of ~7Gb partitions was I able to get the install to complete.

  then, on reboot, I get this:

  macserial; can't request IO resource!
  hde: MDMA, cycletime: 120, accessTime; 75, recTime; 45
  hde: set MDMA timing for mode 2, reg0x00211526
  RAMDISK incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 4194304
  init boot: relocation error: init boot: symbol get}v, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference
  Kernel panic:  Attempted to kill init!

  Sometimes, I don't see the stuff after RAMDISK, and instead see "INIT:  ID "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

  So, do I really have to partition this disk so small?  I'd like to modify the / partition so that it's only 5 or 10 Gb and then have one or two really big partitions on the disk for my other stuff, but that doesn't seem to be possible.

  Help?

  Thanks.

  --glen
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