About to Give up on YDL for PM 6500s

Jared Pedroza yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:18:45 -0600


I just did this 2 days ago. the only way I could make it work was to use 
the text ram disk image and choose kernel version 2.2 instead of the 
default in bootx. Now it is working well. If you need more info, etc. 
let me know.

Jared Pedroza

On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 10:36  AM, Miyasato, Kris wrote:

> I wrote in about troubles I am having installing YDL 2.3 and 2.2 . I
> appreciated the responses, however increasing bootloader size and
> experimenting with custom setups does not seem to work. I have tried
> different sized partitions, different packages, and using both the text 
> and
> Graphical install utilities.
>
> What I have noticed is that when I go to partition the disk using the 
> text
> install utility, there are 4 small Macintosh partions 2-5 created
> (37kb-256kb) One of them is labeled "patch partition". Is this normal? I
> even tried erasing those and re-partioning during one install, still no
> look.
>
> End results of my installs is a screen dump ending in Aiee Kernel Panic,
> this occurs when the installer finishes checking for dependencies and 
> starts
> to write to the disk.
>
> I was hoping to install YDL on 6 PM6500s to use as a cluster, however I 
> may
> need to look elsewhere for distributions.
>
> Kris A. Miyasato, MA
> Server Administrator
> Pepperdine University - GSEP
> kmiyasat@pepperdine.edu
>
>
>
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