sigh

[Andrew]

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 17:50, Jason McQueen wrote:
> Well here is my story:
> 
> I get a Beige G3 233 from my job for free and decide what a nice 
> opportunity to install Linux. The machines specs are as follows: G3 
> 233mhz, 2 4gb HD (IBM and Segate), 256 MB RAM, floopy and CDROM, 2 MB 
> on board VRAM. So I partion the first drive on the SCSI (the IBM) as 
> unallocated, and install 9.2 on the Segate 4 GB drive. I then drag Boot 
> X over to the desktop, unstuffit, and place the extension in the 
> extensions folder, all the rest goes in the system folder. I click boot 
> X, choose the Boot img, enable SCSI and away I go.. I format the drive 
> using Disk Druid as Follows: First is Boot (ext2) at 100mb (when I do 
> smaller it says YDL likes 75MB+), then comes Swap 512MB, then / (ext2) 
> and click use remaining but I also do the math from the graph in the 
> graphical installer. So I then pick the packages, and it installs 
> perfectly. I then reboot pick Linux, take off the boot img, and set the 
> drive to sda6 like it told me too. It tries to start but then gives me 
> "Kernal Panic cant load the sda6 partition" so I take the sda6 off in 
> Boot X and let it boot I then get a Kernal Panic Reboot in 180 seconds 
> error.
> 
> Sorry if this is so long, but I have used the search and am at a loss. 
> So any help would be appreciated, linux is starting to haunt my dreams 
> and if I don't vanquish the demon soon its all over for me :-).
> 
> -Jason

1/10th this will work but try setting root to sdb6 in bootx.

::crossing my fingers::

Also, make sure the disks have them jumpers set properly.

	Im running YD on a G3/300 tower and I, too,  never been able to boot
from any SCSI disks so far (I have two of them), even if anaconda
installed everything on..BZZZZZ no go. I worked around this problem by
installing the /  partition on a ATA disk so that the kernel was able to
boot a bit. I then complained it cant find the other partitions (those
on the SCSI; asking for root passwd for maintenance) Then using vi to
replace all 'sdb' occurances for 'sda' in /etc/fstab... its fine since
then. 

I wish you better luck than mine ;)
-Andrew

> 
> p.s. does anyone know of a good PPC CD Distro (I have Knoppix, but want 
> to use Linux on my Mac's not my PC. You see Windows is enough trouble 
> already :P ) , maybe the install route will only drive me nuts! Thanks 
> again
> 
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