Stuck

[bruce woller]

One major difference between 2.3 an 3.0 is that SCSI support is built 
into the kernel in 2.3 whereas it is a module in 3.0.  Insure that your 
yaboot.conf contains the location of the initrd.img file e.g 
"initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8d.img" so that the kernel loads the module 
before it leaves run level 1.

Hope this helps.

Bruce
On Friday, June 11, 2004, at 08:42  AM, Arch and Cath wrote:

> (I am resending this because it got bounced back before I was 
> officially a
> member.)
>
> My computer is a Beige G3 w Version 3 motherboard (366MHz) with 640MB 
> RAM.
> The processor has been updated with a ZIP G4 (553MHz) and has SCSI and
> USB/Firewire cards.
>
> At first I couldn't get the YDL 3.0.1 installer to recognize the 9GB 
> SCSI
> drive.  Moved the drive from the Apple SCSI card to the internal bus 
> (0-2)
> and, according to anaconda, got a good install.
>
> Revised BootX to normal kernel, /dev/sda6 and no ramdisk.   Boot fails 
> with:
> UDF-fs No partition found - Kernel panic.   VFS: Unable to mount root 
> fs on
> 08:06.
>
> By using BOOT kernel, BootX "linux rescue" argument and holding down 
> Control
> key got 3.0.1 to boot up in RESCUE.
>
> Once booted up, examination of /etc/fstab revealed:
>
> /dev/sda6               /                   ext3
> none                        /dev/pts        devpts
> none                        /proc             proc
> none                        /dev/shm       tempfs
> /dev/sda7               swap               swap
> /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom  udf............
> /dev/sdb4                 /mnt/zip
>
> Tried BootX kernel arguments "root=/dev/sda6" and "root=806" with 
> normal
> kernel.    No joy!
>
> It appears that this is a kernel problem with Old World SCSI
>
> It was suggested that the linux-powermac-ow-scsi-2.4-benh-2.4.25-ben1 
> kernel
> might be the answer.  After looking at it, that appears to be so.
>
> But how do we get there?   The only way YDL 3.0.1 will bootup now is in
> "linux rescue" mode.   In that mode, ethernet doesn't work so I can't
> download the benh stuff.  (In 2.3, eth0 is there on boot -- in 3.0.1 
> rescue,
> the sys says it can't find eth0)
>
> So I go back to my old YDL 2.3 distro and download the benh stuff and 
> start
> to work.    But  then I realize that I had to format to ext2 to get to 
> 2.3
> and will have to reformat to ext3 to get back to YDL 3.01.  Everything 
> will
> disappear.
>
> It seems to me that when I had 2.3 in a couple of years ago, I could 
> use my
> ZIP to bring stuff back and forth between linux and MacOS.  The ZIP is 
> Mac
> Std format and I tell 2.3 fstab that the ZIP format is either auto or 
> hfs --
> neither works.   I had it in mind to store the files I built in 2.3 on 
> the
> ZIP and then import them to 3.0.1.    On further reflection, however, I
> realize that without the BenH system that is on my SCSI ZIP, 3.01 
> can't see
> my ZIP.
>
> Deciding to try once more with a clean slate, I did another complete 
> install
> of YDL-3.0.1 letting the installer do the format and partition on 
> Automatic.
> Still have the same kernel panic problem.  YDL advertises that 3.0.1 
> works
> on Beige G3 with SCSI -- so I must be doing something wrong -- any 
> ideas?
>
> Help,
>
> Arch
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