by Rich Coo » Wed, 22 Mar 2000 04:00:00
by Rich Coo » Wed, 22 Mar 2000 04:00:00
I booted using BootX v1.2b3. I used th vmlinux.benh.15 kernel as suggested
in http://www.linuxppc.org/docs/sawtooth-install.shtml. The kernel arg was
just ramdisk_size=8192, and the checkbox "No video driver" was checked.
When I booted into linux, the boot went apparently fine, but then it got to
the following, which I quote exactly
partition check:
hda: hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-11, errno=2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-11, errno=2
mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device (maybe
`insmod driver'?)
Then it just repeats the following line endlessly (well, at least 23 times,
once per about 5 seconds until i rebooted):
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
etc.
Comments? As I mentioned, this is LinuxPPC 1999 on an AGP G4 fresh from
the store, 2 weeks old. FYI, the cdrom was in the drive. :-)
by hawo.. » Wed, 22 Mar 2000 04:00:00
by <mgarr.. » Wed, 22 Mar 2000 04:00:00
>>> Hi, as the subject says, sort of, I tried to install LinuxPPC 1999 on my
>>> new AGP G4 PPC box and I can't get the installer to recognize my hard
>>> drive.
>> Here are the specific errors I get, for those waiting on the edge of their
>> seats:
>> I booted using BootX v1.2b3. I used th vmlinux.benh.15 kernel as suggested
> BootX is not able to sufficently reinitialize the latest models to
> a known state for booting LinuxPPC, you need to use yaboot from OF.
Mark
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by Most Wealthy Che » Wed, 22 Mar 2000 04:00:00
> >>> Hi, as the subject says, sort of, I tried to install LinuxPPC 1999 on my
> >>> new AGP G4 PPC box and I can't get the installer to recognize my hard
> >>> drive.
> >> Here are the specific errors I get, for those waiting on the edge of their
> >> seats:
> >> I booted using BootX v1.2b3. I used th vmlinux.benh.15 kernel as suggested
> > BootX is not able to sufficently reinitialize the latest models to
> > a known state for booting LinuxPPC, you need to use yaboot from OF.
> yaboot doesn't seem to work if you ONLY have SCSI drives on your G4. The
> alias "hd:" that is used in yaboot is an Open Firmware alias to, in the case
> of G3s and G4s, the IDE bus. If you purchased the LinuxPPC.com cd, and you
> can't get it to boot from your SCSI-only G4, give support a ring, or email.
> The more paying customers who have the same problem, the more likely they
> will come out with a solution.
by Most Wealthy Che » Wed, 22 Mar 2000 04:00:00
> >> Hi, as the subject says, sort of, I tried to install LinuxPPC 1999 on my
> >> new AGP G4 PPC box and I can't get the installer to recognize my hard
> >> drive.
> > Here are the specific errors I get, for those waiting on the edge of their
> > seats:
> > I booted using BootX v1.2b3. I used th vmlinux.benh.15 kernel as suggested
> BootX is not able to sufficently reinitialize the latest models to
> a known state for booting LinuxPPC, you need to use yaboot from OF.
Note: If you want to boot with the installer ramdisk, add an
"initrd=path_to_ramdisk" line to the config file section of the
kernel image. You
should probably also add "initrd-size = 8192".
huh?
How do I use yaboot? Is there a FAQ somewhere?
by Rich Coo » Wed, 22 Mar 2000 04:00:00
> >>>> Hi, as the subject says, sort of, I tried to install LinuxPPC 1999 on my
> >>>> new AGP G4 PPC box and I can't get the installer to recognize my hard
> >>>> drive.
> >>> Here are the specific errors I get, for those waiting on the edge of their
> >>> seats:
> >>> I booted using BootX v1.2b3. I used th vmlinux.benh.15 kernel as suggested
> >> BootX is not able to sufficently reinitialize the latest models to
> >> a known state for booting LinuxPPC, you need to use yaboot from OF.
> > yaboot doesn't seem to work if you ONLY have SCSI drives on your G4. The
> > alias "hd:" that is used in yaboot is an Open Firmware alias to, in the case
> > of G3s and G4s, the IDE bus. If you purchased the LinuxPPC.com cd, and you
> > can't get it to boot from your SCSI-only G4, give support a ring, or email.
> > The more paying customers who have the same problem, the more likely they
> > will come out with a solution.
> Have you tried looking through the OF device-tree to see what
> it uses for the scsi aliases? yaboot takes cd:, so it would
> probably take sd:, or whatever OF wants.
> If you are using SCSI for your boot device, at the OF prompt, try:
> printenv boot-device
by Rich Coo » Wed, 22 Mar 2000 04:00:00
> >> >> Hi, as the subject says, sort of, I tried to install LinuxPPC 1999 on my
> >> >> new AGP G4 PPC box and I can't get the installer to recognize my hard
> >> >> drive.
> >> > Here are the specific errors I get, for those waiting on the edge of their
> >> > seats:
> >> > I booted using BootX v1.2b3. I used th vmlinux.benh.15 kernel as suggested
> >> BootX is not able to sufficently reinitialize the latest models to
> >> a known state for booting LinuxPPC, you need to use yaboot from OF.
> > I see the yaboot "binary" at http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/,
> > but I am clueless as to how to go about using it. It seems that
> > when I download the .gz file using Netscape, bad things happen
> > and I'm left with a text file that Stuffit complains is not a
> > good .gzip file.
> I hate it when netscrape does that, unfortunetly it is
> sometimes the server that is doing it to you, so fiddling
> with your helper configuration won't help.
> > Furthermore, I have no clue what these "instructions" mean:
> > Note: If you want to boot with the installer ramdisk, add an
> > "initrd=path_to_ramdisk" line to the config file section of the
> > kernel image. You
> > should probably also add "initrd-size = 8192".
> These are bootparms for setting up and loading a ramdisk.
> Necessary for installs and rescue boots. They can be
> entered into the yaboot.conf.
> > huh?
> > How do I use yaboot? Is there a FAQ somewhere?
> I've yet to any documents to speak of, you can look back
> through the archives of the maillists at
> http://lists.linuxppc.org
> Also grab the install docs for ydl1.2 and LinuxPPC 2000.
> There are several ways to set it up depending upon
> whether you want to make the system automatically
> boot to yaboot or MacOS, or use OpenFirmware to boot
> the system. I use a small HFS partition which just
> has yaboot, yaboot.conf, and various kernels, this
> could also be your MacOS partition. At system boot I
> <cmd><opt>OF into OF and then:
> > boot hd:11,yaboot
> Pressing tab lists the images configured in yaboot.conf
> and you type in one and press enter.
> An alternative if you want to make the yaboot partition
> the default boot partition you can put yaboot and
> yaboot.conf into a "blessed system folder", but I don't
> recommend you try that until you have a stable install
> and understand yaboot.conf (and keep your MacOS cdroms
> handy). There's also a slick way to script OF to dual
> boot, see the LinuxPPC developer's maillist archives.
> There should be an example yaboot.conf file in the
> package if you ever get it to download, or get ahold
> of the LinuxPPC 2000 image which uses yaboot to enable
> the bootable cdrom. Once you see the examples, the format
> should make sense.
by I R A Darth Agg » Thu, 23 Mar 2000 04:00:00
+ I see the yaboot "binary" at http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/,
+ but I am clueless as to how to go about using it. It seems that
+ when I download the .gz file using Netscape, bad things happen
+ and I'm left with a text file that Stuffit complains is not a
+ good .gzip file.
Yes, netscape isn't quite as smart as it thinks it is. Click on the
link until you bring up a pop-up menu. One of the items is "Save Link As..."
That should cure this problem.
James
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by hawo.. » Thu, 23 Mar 2000 04:00:00
>> >> Hi, as the subject says, sort of, I tried to install LinuxPPC 1999 on my
>> >> new AGP G4 PPC box and I can't get the installer to recognize my hard
>> >> drive.
>> > Here are the specific errors I get, for those waiting on the edge of their
>> > seats:
>> > I booted using BootX v1.2b3. I used th vmlinux.benh.15 kernel as suggested
>> BootX is not able to sufficently reinitialize the latest models to
>> a known state for booting LinuxPPC, you need to use yaboot from OF.
> I see the yaboot "binary" at http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/,
> but I am clueless as to how to go about using it. It seems that
> when I download the .gz file using Netscape, bad things happen
> and I'm left with a text file that Stuffit complains is not a
> good .gzip file.
These are bootparms for setting up and loading a ramdisk.Quote:> Furthermore, I have no clue what these "instructions" mean:
> Note: If you want to boot with the installer ramdisk, add an
> "initrd=path_to_ramdisk" line to the config file section of the
> kernel image. You
> should probably also add "initrd-size = 8192".
I've yet to any documents to speak of, you can look backQuote:> huh?
> How do I use yaboot? Is there a FAQ somewhere?
http://lists.linuxppc.org
Also grab the install docs for ydl1.2 and LinuxPPC 2000.
There are several ways to set it up depending upon
whether you want to make the system automatically
boot to yaboot or MacOS, or use OpenFirmware to boot
the system. I use a small HFS partition which just
has yaboot, yaboot.conf, and various kernels, this
could also be your MacOS partition. At system boot I
<cmd><opt>OF into OF and then:
Pressing tab lists the images configured in yaboot.confQuote:> boot hd:11,yaboot
An alternative if you want to make the yaboot partition
the default boot partition you can put yaboot and
yaboot.conf into a "blessed system folder", but I don't
recommend you try that until you have a stable install
and understand yaboot.conf (and keep your MacOS cdroms
handy). There's also a slick way to script OF to dual
boot, see the LinuxPPC developer's maillist archives.
There should be an example yaboot.conf file in the
package if you ever get it to download, or get ahold
of the LinuxPPC 2000 image which uses yaboot to enable
the bootable cdrom. Once you see the examples, the format
should make sense.
by hawo.. » Thu, 23 Mar 2000 04:00:00
>>>> Hi, as the subject says, sort of, I tried to install LinuxPPC 1999 on my
>>>> new AGP G4 PPC box and I can't get the installer to recognize my hard
>>>> drive.
>>> Here are the specific errors I get, for those waiting on the edge of their
>>> seats:
>>> I booted using BootX v1.2b3. I used th vmlinux.benh.15 kernel as suggested
>> BootX is not able to sufficently reinitialize the latest models to
>> a known state for booting LinuxPPC, you need to use yaboot from OF.
> yaboot doesn't seem to work if you ONLY have SCSI drives on your G4. The
> alias "hd:" that is used in yaboot is an Open Firmware alias to, in the case
> of G3s and G4s, the IDE bus. If you purchased the LinuxPPC.com cd, and you
> can't get it to boot from your SCSI-only G4, give support a ring, or email.
> The more paying customers who have the same problem, the more likely they
> will come out with a solution.
If you are using SCSI for your boot device, at the OF prompt, try:
printenv boot-device
by I R A Darth Agg » Thu, 23 Mar 2000 04:00:00
+ HOW do I install Linux on my G4 in the easiest way possible? do i
+ really have to go with yaboot?
You might be able to get a way with BootX. yaboot is probably a cleaner
way of doing things, tho.
+ clue: i don't know what OF stands for, for one thing.
OpenFirmware. I think. I haven't kept up with Apple's "minor"
advancements.
James
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by Jan O Jonase » Thu, 23 Mar 2000 04:00:00
> >> Hi, as the subject says, sort of, I tried to install LinuxPPC 1999
> >>on my new AGP G4 PPC box and I can't get the installer to recognize
> >>my hard drive.
> > Here are the specific errors I get, for those waiting on the edge of
> >their seats:
> > I booted using BootX v1.2b3. I used th vmlinux.benh.15 kernel as
> >suggested
> BootX is not able to sufficently reinitialize the latest models to a
> known state for booting LinuxPPC, you need to use yaboot from OF.
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by hawo.. » Thu, 23 Mar 2000 04:00:00
Yep, at the reboot chime press the four keys <cmd> <opt> 'o' 'f'Quote:> + clue: i don't know what OF stands for, for one thing.
> OpenFirmware. I think. I haven't kept up with Apple's "minor"
> advancements.
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