Updating YDL 3.0

[Andrew]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:14:34 -0500
Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:22:03 -0800, Daniel Gimpelevich
> <daniel at gimpelevich> wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:31:58 -0500:
> > 
> > > *** I (Eric) found that the RAM disk option was redundant for my
> > > OldWorld machine-- it caused my kernel to panic so I disabled it in
> > > BootX (make sure you click save to make the change permanent in case
> > > you enabled it). I suspect that you use the RAM disk option when
> > > you're installing/upgrading YDL 4.0 from CD, not when running the
> > > machine (my mistake)?
> > 
> > When I said the option must now be ON, I was referring only to running the
> > machine, not installation. If it causes a kernel panic, you need to supply
> > a root= kernel arg.
> 
> I'm thinking I shouldn't have touched my system now because there's a
> whole slew of dependency problems (I no longer have a _single_ web
> browser on the system -- no mozilla, firefox, epiphany or konquerer
> (for that matter, KDE is not available but at least GNOME is somewhat
> functional... fortunately 95% of the server services seem to be
> chugging along nicely, and SMB sharing now shows the right file size
> in OS X)). Perhaps it's time to try a full clean install of 4.0 onto
> /?
> 
> Anyway, "root=" seems to crash the system when I use a RAM disk. For
> that matter, I *cannot* get the 2.6.9 .img setting to boot with BootX
> 1.2.2 (should I be using a different version of BootX?). I've also
> tried passing:
> rghb quiet init=
> init=
> init=rghb quiet
> =init
> 
> I do end up getting slightly different screen outputs depending on the
> sequence used but all of them end with the complaint of kernel panic,
> and pass init= to the kernel at boot.
> 
> Only when I do _NOT_ use the .img/RAM disk will the computer boot
> reporting INIT: 2.85. I'm going to give init=2.85 a try.
> 
> Why do you say the RAM disk MUST be used?
> 
> PS I'm trying to do this on a Rev A Beige G3/266.
> 
> Eric.

 Do you mean it crash when you use the initrd.<version>.img file found in /boot
or the ramdisk.image.gz from the CD?