Booting issues

[Christopher Nunu]

I am booting by holding down the option key. Even when I let it load 
the default choice, it still brings me to the "enter "mac-boot" to 
proceed with booting" screen and then freezes. I'm never given the 
option to load the KDE or Gnome environment. Would a screenshot help? I 
can tell you that right before the prompt  it says "Welcome to open 
firmware" and that it's black text on white background.


Il giorno 17 mar 2006, alle 13.00, 
yellowdog-newbie-request at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com ha scritto:

>
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:45:41 -0600
> From: Christopher Nunu <canunu at gmail.com>
> Subject: Booting issues
> To: yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Message-ID: <912b33a861ed7e601ddbcb7e89dbc424 at gmail.com>
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> 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,
> yellowdog-newbie-request at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com wrote:
>>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:39:08 -0600
>> From: Christopher Nunu <canunu at gmail.com>
>> Subject: trouble installing Yellow Dog Linux
>> To: yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>> Message-ID: <b7544f73c0d12df43b31da74d1d93ec3 at gmail.com>
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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?
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 2
>> 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
>> 	<yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>> Message-ID: <39b26e543af69b56c36f961c5c1e95e2 at verizon.net>
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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...
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:49:08 -0500
> From: Derick Centeno <aguilarojo at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: Booting issues
> To: Discussion List for New Yellow Dog Linux Users
> 	<yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
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> Hi Chris:
> Well, something is moving along in a positive direction, and that at
> least ... is a good thing.
>
> Instead of booting the way you described, why not just press the option
> key just as your computer is booting up?  This will bring up a series
> of images representing all the drives the computer sees both OS X and
> Linux (after the YDL installation has successfully completed of course;
> you can recognize it as a Penguin sitting down along the lower right
> side of the HD icon).  You should wait until all the drives available
> are listed; that is, wait for the cursor to return to normal.  On that
> screen there is also the option for you to have the computer recognize
> more newly attached drives (that button looks like a circle pointing to
> itself); this is useful in case you turned on an external drive just a
> wee bit after the computer already was booting up.  In that case,
> pressing that button forces the computer to review again whatever is
> attached to it's ports as an external HD.
>
> Anyway, after the cursor is back to normal in that setting then  you
> select the drive you want the computer to boot from at that moment (you
> can use the arrow keys, or move the mouse, or move your fingers along
> the trackpad) and then press the return/enter key and you should be on
> your way booting into that OS.  The rest takes care of itself.
>
> If you choose the Linux drive, you'll see linux startup and an option
> offering you to enter a selection from the keyboard.  My suggestion is
> that you don't enter anything; a script will take over enter the word
> "linux" and continue with the boot process.  Then you select which
> environment you want: KDE or Gnome.
>
> Good Luck ...
>
> On Mar 16, 2006, at 7:45 PM, Christopher Nunu wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>