Does anyone have YDL 2.3 up on 5400?

[lowell]

I got it to install on a 5400/180 by using the 2.2 kernel and making the 
boot partition 100M; chose the failsafe x config in Xconfigurstor after 
bak-ing what the install had done and away we went...
    However, it doesn't sound like you're even getting far enough to 
choose which kernel to use...
Robin Colgrove wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> I have a PowerMac 5400/120 (the academic model with standard ethernet) 
> with 192 M RAM and the int HD partitioned into 500M for mac os and 
> 1.1G for (I hope) linux. It has a 300MHz Sonnet G3 card in the L2 
> slot. It works like a charm in OS 9. When Sonnet said they were giving 
> up trying to get OS X to run, I decided to try linux. Years ago, I had 
> linux ppc on this machine, but had long ago removed it.
>
> I bought YDL 2.3 (including support and manual) but when I tried to 
> install, it hung immediately with the "arch: exit" message I see 
> referred to in some earlier posts. On the advice of kai from YDL 
> support, I removed all traces of old kernels and BooX, re-installed 
> BootX from the CD, and tried again with the text installer and the 2.2 
> kernel.
>
> Now, I still get an almost immediate hang, with this on the screen:
>
> Welcome to Linux, kernel 2.2.19-1r
>
> started at             :  0x00000000
> linked at           :  0xc0000000
> frame buffer at     :  0xf1001000 (phys), 0x1001000 (log)
> MSR                 :  0x00000042
> HID0                :  0x0081c185
> ICTC                :  0x00000000
>
> booting...
>
> ******
>
> then it just sits there forever till I do a hard restart.
>
> At this point, kai says basically pull out the G3, put back in the old 
> CPU and try again.
> I would be wary of this even if I had the old CPU lying around.
>
> Does _anyone_ have YDL installed on a machine like this or have any 
> good tricks for installation?
>
> thanks
>
> robin colgrove
>
>
>
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