problems installing/logging into linux

Andrzej Montaņo yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:56:27 -0800


Soooooooooooooo... does anyone know how to fix this???


>From: "M. Rowen" <mike@bcmr3.net>
>Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>Subject: Re: problems installing/logging into linux
>Date: 28 Oct 2003 20:22:36 -0600
>
>This is an odd one. This is my exact hardware configuration and I had no
>issues with the YDL install. I even have the firewire drive, however, I
>do not have any bootable partitions on the firewire drive and I
>disconnected it from the iMac when I did the YDL install. I don't know
>if that makes a difference or not. My firewire drive is a Maxtor 5000DV.
>-Mike
>
>On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 18:23, Andrzej Montaņo wrote:
> > Single G4 800 Mhz processor, 15 inch display (original flat panel imac), 
>YDL
> > 3.0, 512 MB RAM, internal HD 60 GB (the one i tried to put linux on),
> > external firewire HD 160 GB (the one with OS X), no partitions, Mac OS
> > 10.2.8, graphics card GeForce2 MX 32 MB video memory.  Anything else you
> > need just ask.
> >
> > thanx
> >
> >
> > >From: Norberto Quintanar <nquintanar@yahoo.com>
> > >Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> > >To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> > >Subject: Re: problems installing/logging into linux Date: Tue, 28 Oct 
>2003
> > >07:20:14 -0800 (PST)
> > >
> > >Supply more info processor, size of display, single partition, double
> > >partition, qty. of hard drives.  RAM,  What distribution of YDL are
> > >you using?  Give us all of the info you have, etc.........
> > >
> > >
> > >--- Andrzej Montaņo <ithinkilostmyhead@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > > i am (was) trying to run linux on a flat panel imac, and when i
> > > > tried to
> > > > install it using the graphical interface i quite frankly couldnt
> > > > read it
> > > > because it was having problems displaying it, so i i used the other
> > > > install
> > > > option and it worked, then when i logged in it displayed the kernel
> > > > (is this
> > > > normal? if so it would be useful if someone could tell me what to
> > > > do), and i
> > > > couldnt figure out what to do, on top of this it woldn't let me get
> > > > back
> > > > into mac os x so my computer was unusable, i had to reinstall os x
> > > > (on my
> > > > external hard drive) and erase my internal hard drive (the one that
> > > > had
> > > > linux on it) to get back to os x
> > > >
> > > > P.S. sorry im sending this message again but i forgot to put in a
> > > > subject
> > > > line and am assuming that many people didnt bother looking at it
> > > > for that
> > > > reason
> > > >
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