Stuck

[Duane Foster]

The Beige G3 needs to use BootX, so a yaboot suggestion is not useful =
here.  What is particularly frustrating is that the installation kernel =
needs no 'module' loading, so you can do the whole installation of YDL =
3.x using SCSI and then you cannot boot the regular kernel.  Maybe =
initrd can be utilized with BootX, but i haven't tried it.  So many =
people advise to get an IDE drive and don't look back, it worked for me. =
 Although I was pulling for Arch to succeed and maybe I could reclaim =
that 9G SCSI drive i'm now ignoring on my Mac.
duane

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bruce woller [mailto:brucewoller@comcast.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 5:36 PM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: Stuck
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> One major difference between 2.3 an 3.0 is that SCSI support is built=20
> into the kernel in 2.3 whereas it is a module in 3.0.  Insure=20
> that your=20
> yaboot.conf contains the location of the initrd.img file e.g=20
> "initrd=3D/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8d.img" so that the kernel loads=20
> the module=20
> before it leaves run level 1.
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> Hope this helps.
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> Bruce
> On Friday, June 11, 2004, at 08:42  AM, Arch and Cath wrote:
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> > (I am resending this because it got bounced back before I was=20
> > officially a
> > member.)
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> > My computer is a Beige G3 w Version 3 motherboard (366MHz)=20
> with 640MB=20
> > RAM.
> > The processor has been updated with a ZIP G4 (553MHz) and=20
> has SCSI and
> > USB/Firewire cards.
> >
> > At first I couldn't get the YDL 3.0.1 installer to=20
> recognize the 9GB=20
> > SCSI
> > drive.  Moved the drive from the Apple SCSI card to the=20
> internal bus=20
> > (0-2)
> > and, according to anaconda, got a good install.
> >
> > Revised BootX to normal kernel, /dev/sda6 and no ramdisk.  =20
> Boot fails=20
> > with:
> > UDF-fs No partition found - Kernel panic.   VFS: Unable to=20
> mount root=20
> > fs on
> > 08:06.
> >
> > By using BOOT kernel, BootX "linux rescue" argument and=20
> holding down=20
> > 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=3D/dev/sda6" and "root=3D806" =
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> > normal
> > kernel.    No joy!
> >
> > It appears that this is a kernel problem with Old World SCSI
> >
> > It was suggested that the=20
> linux-powermac-ow-scsi-2.4-benh-2.4.25-ben1=20
> > 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=20
> bootup now is in
> > "linux rescue" mode.   In that mode, ethernet doesn't work=20
> so I can't
> > download the benh stuff.  (In 2.3, eth0 is there on boot --=20
> in 3.0.1=20
> > rescue,
> > the sys says it can't find eth0)
> >
> > So I go back to my old YDL 2.3 distro and download the benh=20
> stuff and=20
> > start
> > to work.    But  then I realize that I had to format to=20
> ext2 to get to=20
> > 2.3
> > and will have to reformat to ext3 to get back to YDL 3.01. =20
> Everything=20
> > will
> > disappear.
> >
> > It seems to me that when I had 2.3 in a couple of years=20
> ago, I could=20
> > use my
> > ZIP to bring stuff back and forth between linux and MacOS. =20
> The ZIP is=20
> > Mac
> > Std format and I tell 2.3 fstab that the ZIP format is=20
> either auto or=20
> > hfs --
> > neither works.   I had it in mind to store the files I=20
> built in 2.3 on=20
> > the
> > ZIP and then import them to 3.0.1.    On further=20
> reflection, however, I
> > realize that without the BenH system that is on my SCSI ZIP, 3.01=20
> > can't see
> > my ZIP.
> >
> > Deciding to try once more with a clean slate, I did another=20
> complete=20
> > install
> > of YDL-3.0.1 letting the installer do the format and partition on=20
> > Automatic.
> > Still have the same kernel panic problem.  YDL advertises=20
> that 3.0.1=20
> > works
> > on Beige G3 with SCSI -- so I must be doing something wrong -- any=20
> > ideas?
> >
> > Help,
> >
> > Arch
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