[ydl-gen] Firstboot failed on G3 with SCSI drive

John Mok jmok at attglobal.net
Mon Nov 27 07:55:05 MST 2006


Hi,

I tried to install Yellow Dog Linux 4.1 on a Blue-and-White G3 with 8GB 
of SCSI drive. YDL was the only OS installed, and I used automatic 
partitioning. The list of partitions follows :-

Partition #     Size MB   Mount point
===========     =======   ===========
1               1         Apple bootstrap
2               7168      /
3               1024      Swap
4               100       /boot

The package selection was the default server installation. Upon the 
first boot, it failed to use "yaboot" to Linux partition, and showed a 
mon prompt (i.e. a "?" followed by a Mac Mon). After 10-15 seconds, the 
screen ran a list of errors, e.g. DEFAULT CATCH ! .....

I am new to Yellow Dog Linux and PPC. I hope someone could help me how 
to fix the installation and boot to Linux.

Thanks a lot.

John Mok



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