Painful Installation and Booting Issues on an iMac...

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Heh, uh, how do I do that?

Thanks,
Matt

Quoting Norberto Quintanar <nquintanar@yahoo.com>:

> 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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