Booting issues

Fri Mar 17 14:40:41 MST 2006

Ok.  Perhaps I should have asked this question the first time.

Did you download YDL 4.1? or did you buy it?

If you downloaded it: Did you remember to check the md5 values against 
the value provided by TSS — for each iso (before you burned the iso 
onto the CD)?  Do or did you know how to do this and where to execute 
the md5 test from?

If you don't mind you can send me a snapshot of the screen you are 
discussing directly to me.  I am not an engineer, but I'll attempt to 
point out what I can.

On Mar 17, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Christopher Nunu wrote:

> 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>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>>
>> 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>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>>>
>>> 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>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>>>
>>> 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...
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> 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>
>> Message-ID: <49cf0ab09892c9da3e70f6a10f5ef631 at verizon.net>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>
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