YDL 4.0 on PowerMac G5 w/bluetooth wo/modem

Felix Jodoin felixj at shaw.ca
Mon Nov 29 12:40:41 MST 2004


That's very strange. On my G3 that kernel was listed there! Try booting 
from the install CD with the linux-g5 kernel.

On 29-Nov-04, at 12:03 PM, Curt Arnold wrote:

>
> On Nov 29, 2004, at 10:00 AM, Felix Jodoin wrote:
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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
>>
>
> I have linux and linux-up listed as the available kernels.  I assume 
> linux-up is the uniprocessor kernel.  Using it did not seem to change 
> the behavior.  Attempting to use linux-g5 resulted in an kernel not 
> found message.
>
>
> On Nov 29, 2004, at 10:05 AM, Nigel Horne wrote:
>
>> macserial: can't request IO resource
>>  RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 !=32768) 4194303
>>
>> I see the same error when booting.
>
> Does that mean that you are not  seeing: "agppart: Unsupported apple 
> chipset (device id: 0059)"?
>
> The macserial line is consistent with my lack of a modem.  If you also 
> don't have a modem, but are able to boot, that would suggest to me 
> that my failure to boot is unrelated to my lack of modem.
>
> Don't know the reason behind the ominous RAMDISK message.  However, if 
> you are able to boot after seeing it, likely it is also unrelated to 
> my problem.
>
> My guess is that the "agppart" message is due to the presence of the 
> bluetooth module.  Since it is a factory installed option, I can't 
> just pull it to see if I can boot without it.
>
>
>
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