YDL Stalls on Boot

[Chris Gehlker]

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 09:01 AM, Clinton MacDonald wrote:

> Mr. Howenstein:
>
> I don't have too much advice to offer you -- perhaps a more 
> experienced head knows your symptoms. Nevertheless...
>
> On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 10:44  AM, Brian Howenstein wrote:
>> I just installed YDL 3.0.1 on a Dual 1GHz G4 Quicksilver 2002.
>
> Oooh nice! Why are you playing with Yellow Dog Linux when you have 
> such a fine OS X machine? ;-)
>
>> The installation was successfully completed, but after the 
>> installation restart, YDL will not boot. The boot process stalls at 
>> the point "Bringing up loopback interface: ".
>
> Are you certain it is "hung," and not merely waiting for an uncommonly 
> long timeout? I know that some services that start during the first 
> bootup have very long (five minutes or more) setup periods and 
> timeouts. The CUPS printer setup is one, for instance. Another is 
> ethernet networking. Maybe "loopback interface" is one more of those. 
> Have you tried just letting the machine sit for thirty minutes or more 
> during startup?

I have almost the same machine, a dual 1.25, and never saw any symptoms 
like that. I did put YDL entirely on the 2nd drive.
>
>> Main HD:
>> Mac OS X: Majority of Drive
>> Mac OS 9: 2 GB
>> YDL 3.0.1: 15 GB (Linux partition was created automatically)
>>
>> 2nd Drive is one partition for storage.
>
> There used to be a bug that affected installations on machines with 
> two drive, but I thought that was supposed to be fixed with YDL 3.0.1. 
> Hmmm....

Yeah but that hosed your OSX. YDL still worked.