1. Ohh brave NEW WORLD machines, please give me an install hint....
i am running a G4-400, with 896 Mb RAM, a second slave IBM 30 Gb, a
second monitor with a TwinTurbo 4Mb card, an Adaptec 2906 SCSI card.
I have bought my slave IBM 30 Gb to install Linux, as I use my first
disk to make a living. The first disk is the original Quantum bus 2, ID0
The slave is bus 2, ID 1.
I didn't want to use the entire slave for LinuxPPC, so I partitioned the
drive with drive set-up 1.9.2 into the following partitions:
partition 9 HFS+ 7 Gb
partition 10 HFS+ 7 Gb
partition 11 HFS 5 Gb for booting and sharing
partition 12 A/UX 3 Gb root
partition 13 A/UX 1 Gb swap
partition 14 A/UX 6 Gb usr
As XBoot didn't work for me, I checked the web to find the install method
for NewWorld machines, I booted from my HFS partition on the slave and
the rebooted holding the "c" to boot into the Linux installer.
Everytime I received the same error, on my main screen I can read config
found, kernel found and then the messages move to my second small monitor
"copied tree, copied..(?)initialising fake screen,...qui?...
On my left the black screen states: Booting........
And Then Nothing Happens.....................
On the Linux prompt I use the Tab and type Install,.....everything by
the book....
I hoped the problem was the video card or second monitor, so I removed
the card and monitor and tried again,........
Same error !
Yesterday I spent 6 hours reading this(very usefull) newsgroup, but I
didn't find a definite answer.
Now I have the feeling I might have to edit my configfile, it now looks
like this:
init-message = "\nWelcome to LinuxPPC!\nHit <TAB> for boot options.\n\n"
timeout = 50
default = install
image = vmlinux.2.2.15pre3
label = linuxppc
novideo
image = vmlinux_ibook
label = ibook
novideo
image = vmlinux.2.2.15pre3
label = install
initrd = ramdisk.image.gz
initrd-size = 8192
novideo
image = vmlinux.2.2.15pre3
label = framebuffer
initrd = ramdisk.image.gz
initrd-size = 8192
append = "video=atyfb:vmode:17"
image = vmlinux.2.2.15pre3
label = text_install
initrd = ramdisk.image.gz
initrd-size = 8192
append = "video=ofonly text"
I am getting a little bit desparate, because I really want to learn
Linux/Unix and I hope someone out there can give me the right hint....
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