YDL 2.3 iMac Rev A - can't boot

[Ron McCy]

I've tried YDL on an older iMac..233 mHz, tray CD, the original biondi 
blue...the works...not sure if it's a revision A or not.  I have the same 
problem as you do when trying to get the thing to dual boot. The 
partitioning seems to be what the guide says, the  install goes great, but 
it WON"t BOOT to linux!  My try at Linux only did work but only by 
accident....the auto partition didn't do what I wanted, took the entire hard 
drive for linux but it did boot and worked great until I tried to start over 
down the dual boot road.

I have no idea why it doesn't work better.


>From: <chirinog@bellsouth.net>
>Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>To: <yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>Subject: YDL 2.3 iMac Rev A - can't boot
>Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 17:18:06 -0400
>
>Hi,
>
>I have an iMac Rev A (233 mhz) and I've tried four times to install YDL 2.3 
>without
>sucess.
>
>I followed guidelines: 2 partitions (1 unallocated for YDL - 2nd HFS for 
>Mac OS 9),
>installed OS 9 in second partition, then installed YDL (made 3 partition: 
>10 MB Boot, 256
>MB Swap and the rest for Linux - 20 GB). But after restart I only get a 
>gray screen. The
>install was in text mode.
>
>Then tried reverse sequence: installing Mac OS 9.1 in first partition (not 
>HFS Extended)
>and YDL 2.3 in second partition (made 3 partition: 10 MB Boot, 256 MB Swap 
>and the
>rest for Linux - 20 GB). Installation went fine. After restart I get the 
>text menu to choose
>which to boot: Mac OS, Linux or CD. Selecting any of them only gets message 
>like
>"please wait, loading...." and just freeze.
>
>So finally I decided to install just the YDL. Initialized HD with 1 
>partition "Unallocated",
>restart YDL CD, follow instruction (10 MB boot, 256 MB Swap, 20 GB Linux). 
>Installation
>finish without error. Now, after restart I get the following:
>
>boot: linux
>Please wait, loading kernel....
>/pci/mac-io/de@20000/disk@0:8,/boot/vmlinux: Input/output error
>
>I've searching through the messages in this group, but I didn't found what 
>to do to resolve
>the problem.
>
>I would like to hear from whoever is in this list who has susscesfully 
>installed YDL 2.3 in a
>iMac Rev A.
>
>Thanks in advance
>Gustavo Chirinos
>
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