7200/75 install fails

[Jay Savage]

On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 04:38 AM, B. Charles Reynolds wrote:

> What's your partitioning scheme? Older x86 linux kernels needed to be 
> installed within the first 1024 blocks of the bootdisk. I believe that 
> this may have actually been a hardware/BIOS issue, but I'm not sure. I 
> haven't looked at the YDL docs that closely, but you might be running 
> into a similar problem.
>
> Try putting the YDL /boot partition at the very front of the bootdisk 
> (I assume the original SCSI disk) and throw the rest of the YDL 
> partitions onto the other drive.
>
> On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 02:35 PM, Jay Savage wrote:
>
>> First, thanks to everyone who responded to my questions about 
>> installing 7.5.3.  unfortunately, i had a hard drive failure on my 
>> eMac, so i lost the messages and couldn't respond personally.
>>
>> Now, I'm trying to install YDl on a 7200/75 running 7.6 (long story) 
>> with a 500Mb Maxtor SCSI drive (original hardware) and a 40G Seagate 
>> Baracuda IV on a PCI ATA controller.  I've installed everything 
>> correctly--as far as i can tell--on the Mac side, and BootX comes up 
>> when it should, but when i click on Linux, the screen goes black, and 
>> nothing happens, no matter how long i let it sit.  I don't hear the 
>> CD whirring, nothing.  If I couldn't see the green light, I'd think 
>> I'd turned it off.  The monitor even goes to sleep because there's no 
>> video.
>>
>> i've tried everything i can think of, including turning off all the 
>> Bootx options one-by-one, trying different ramdisks.  I even tried 
>> the 2.4 (vmlinux) kernel once, just for kicks.  But still nothing, 
>> not even an error message.
>
> __
> Charles
>

Charles,

I'll try moving things around, but I don't see why this should be an 
issue for the installer ramdisk that is used with BootX.  I'm having 
trouble booting the installer.  I'm also not sure why BIOS issues in 
x86 kernels should be relevant.  This is a power Macintosh 7200 with a 
PPC 601 processor.

Thanks,

--jay