YDL 4.0 on PowerMac G5 w/bluetooth wo/modem
Felix Jodoin
felixj at shaw.ca
Mon Nov 29 09:00:45 MST 2004
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In answer to getting YDL 4 to boot, try typing in "linux-g5". Hit tab
to see the kernels available. That's just a guess, I'm not sure if that
will solve it or if that's what you're doing.
- -Felix
On 28-Nov-04, at 11:45 PM, Curt Arnold wrote:
> I've been unable to get a newly installed YDL 4.0 to successfully boot
> (other than in single user mode) on a new Power Mac G5 2.0 GHz with
> the built-in Bluetooth module and without the modem. I've been using
> a wired keyboard and mouse for this process, though for normal OS/X I
> use the bluetooth mouse and keyboard.
>
> During boot I get the following messages:
>
> agppart: Unsupported apple chipset (device id: 0059)
> macserial: can't request IO resource
> RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 !=32768) 4194303
>
>
> If I attempt a normal boot, I will stall in "Checking new hardware".
> If I try "linux runlevel=3", I stall on initializing the firewire
> driver. If I try "linux runlevel=3 nofirewire", I stall after
> Enabling swap space.
>
> For bonus points: How do I modify the yaboot menu so I can boot either
> off of my Panther on my first hard drive (same as YDL) or Tiger
> preview off the second hard drive?
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