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

[Michel Filion]

Sorry that I can't be of much help with your problem. However I can  
safely say that I regretted installing YDL on my Mac Mini although  
the installation was flawless. After that, I've had numerous problems  
like video, sound, apps behaving so badly I had to use the terminal  
and sometimes reboot to shut them down. I've tried many distros so  
I'm not speaking out of frustration when I say migrate to another  
distro if you can like Ubuntu or Kubuntu where the support is far  
greater and the distros are getting better all the time. Also on the  
plus side, these distros offer a bootable iso image
so you can safely try them out first.
On 27-Nov-06, at 9:55 AM, John Mok wrote:

> 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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