Stuck
Arch and Cath
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu Jun 17 06:10:02 2004
Hey guys,
My 10GB ATA Drive is in the mail. Stay tuned.
Arch
on 6/16/04 10:15 PM, Duane Foster at DFoster@alpha.com wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>> 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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