Painful Installation and Booting Issues on an iMac...

[Norberto Quintanar]

Did you change your root device to dev/"whatever your boot device
is?"  e.g. on my machine it's dev/hda7
--- imatt@sover.net wrote:
> Hello!
> I am absolutely stymied by this new version of Yellow Dog Linux
> (Sirius). In 
> the past, I have used 2.x, but I went back to Mac OS Classic, and I
> now 
> remember why I switched to Linux before...
> 
> Unfortunately, the darn thing doesn't work. I follow all
> installation 
> procedures (in text mode), installing everything but GiMP (which
> seems to make 
> the installer hang), everything installs successfully, it gives me
> happy 
> messages, I reboot, and I sit and stare at the "Loading kernel..."
> message. I 
> have installed several times now (wiping the HD clean with Drive
> Setup between 
> installs), the latest time I let the "Loading kernel..." message
> sit there for 
> three hours, having read something about SSL loadings or something
> taking lots 
> of time on the first boot. To no avail.
> 
> I am installing YDL 3.0 from FTP'd ISOs burnt on a Windows PC onto
> a Revision A 
> iMac (Bondi Blue) with an IBM Deskstar 45GB. There are no hardware
> aberrations 
> but for my Voodoo2 GameWizard, additional RAM, and that I don't use
> stock Apple 
> kb/m: I use a MacAlly kb and an IntelliMouse. Any one have any
> ideas about this 
> source of great frustration?
> 
> Thank you very much!
> Matt Malinowski
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