Booting issues

Thu Mar 16 17:45:41 MST 2006

Thank you, I partitioned the drive as you said, and Yellow Dog 
installed without a hitch. Unfortunately I'm not quite out of the woods 
yet. When I  boot from my firewire drive, I enter "l" to load from 
Linux and it brings me to a screen where I need enter "mac-boot" to 
proceed with booting or "shut-down" to shut down. But from there the 
screen freezes. I can't type anything, so i can't make the computer 
shut down except by pressing the power button. I tried booting from my 
brother's G4 iMac and it skips the second screen (where my G5 iMac is 
having issues) but then I get a message saying "Kernel Panic, tried to 
stop init!". What's going on?

Thank you for your time.

On 16 mar 2006, at 13.00, 
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> From: Christopher Nunu <canunu at gmail.com>
> Subject: trouble installing Yellow Dog Linux
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> I'm having trouble creating the partitions for Yellow Dog. I own a G5
> iMac (PowerPC) with 1GB of RAM, and am trying to install Yellow Dog on
> a LaCie 40GB Mobile Hard Drive brand new, no previous OS installed on
> it. The drive is formatted as Mac OS Extended (not journaled). When I
> boot from the Yellow Dog install disk, and enter install firewire at
> the "boot" prompt, i get all the way to the manual partitioning with
> Disk  Druid. It lets me partition the Apple Bootstrap (although I
> notice that it partitions at 8mb, even though I told it to partition as
> 1mb. When I try to create the swap partition at 512mb, it gives me a
> "cannot allocate partition error". The same thing happens when I try to
> make the root partition.
>
> Anyone know how to correct this, preferably FREELY? I know I could use
> iPartition to make the partitions for me, but spending $50 on something
> I'll probably use once is not exactly appealing. Do I need to format
> the drive in some other format (such as FAT32), or is there another
> way?
>
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> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:40:07 -0500
> From: Derick Centeno <aguilarojo at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: trouble installing Yellow Dog Linux
> To: Discussion List for New Yellow Dog Linux Users
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> Hi Chris:
> Generally, before you install YDL (Yellow Dog Linux) you need to format
> the drive onto which YDL will exist.
>
> If only YDL will exist on that drive then before you run the installer
> you need to boot from the Apple System Disk which came with your
> computer.  In other words before we get to do anything involving Linux
> or YDL we need to format the drive using Apple's Disk Utility which
> resides within the System Disk (if you have the DVD form of that System
> Disk which comprises the Hardware Test and everything else for OS X
> otherwise you'll have a string of CDs; either way the program to use
> will be Apple's Disk Utility regardless and it  should see the entire
> drive you intend to dedicate to YDL.  As nothing else but YDL will be
> on that drive all you need to do is select it to create 1 partition and
> select the kind of partition called Free Space.  It is important to
> note here that although Disk Utility calls it Free Space, in actually
> that is the format structure upon which YDL will use to create ext3
> partition from that free space.
>
> After Disk Utility creates what it considers to be Free Space if the
> Drive was mounted, it will disappear from the desktop.  OS X will ask
> you to mount the drive, choose instead to ignore that request; in other
> words ignore the drive.  After Disk Utility has finished creating the
> Free Partition, and you've closed that application.  Then boot from the
> YDL installation disk and tell YDL to format that newly formatted
> drive.  Be sure that you can recognize which drive you are formatting
> and read the partition maps of which drive you are telling the YDL
> installer (anaconda) to turn into a Linux or YDL only disk.
>
> It might be a good idea to review the installation manual before
> proceeding further.
> If you need to review a manual regarding the instructions just download
> it (for free) from here:
>
> http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/installation/
>
> I expect that the rest should be smooth sailing from that point.
> Good Luck...
>
> On Mar 15, 2006, at 2:39 PM, Christopher Nunu wrote:
>
>> I'm having trouble creating the partitions for Yellow Dog. I own a G5
>> iMac (PowerPC) with 1GB of RAM, and am trying to install Yellow Dog on
>> a LaCie 40GB Mobile Hard Drive brand new, no previous OS installed on
>> it. The drive is formatted as Mac OS Extended (not journaled). When I
>> boot from the Yellow Dog install disk, and enter install firewire at
>> the "boot" prompt, i get all the way to the manual partitioning with
>> Disk  Druid. It lets me partition the Apple Bootstrap (although I
>> notice that it partitions at 8mb, even though I told it to partition
>> as 1mb. When I try to create the swap partition at 512mb, it gives me
>> a "cannot allocate partition error". The same thing happens when I try
>> to make the root partition.
>>
>> Anyone know how to correct this, preferably FREELY? I know I could use
>> iPartition to make the partitions for me, but spending $50 on
>> something I'll probably use once is not exactly appealing. Do I need
>> to format the drive in some other format (such as FAT32), or is there
>> another way?
>>
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