LinuxPPC installation problems

LinuxPPC installation problems

Post by Phil Re » Wed, 19 May 1999 04:00:00



I've just received my LinuxPPC R4 CD but I'm having problems getting it
installed. I'm using BootX as supplied on the CD but the installer freezes
after only 20 or so lines have appeared on the screen with the error
"Sequencer Ram parity error" whatever that means? I have had MKLinux
running on this machine recently and the MacOS works fine so I assume it is
a Linux problem with my machine.

7500 with a 233 604E 176Mb Ram running OS8.6

Any help much appreciated

Phil Read
Worthing
West Sussex
UK

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LinuxPPC installation problems

Post by beeler » Wed, 19 May 1999 04:00:00


I had the same problem Phil. I had to download the latest BootX and kernel
image. Now everything works great. Just drop the kernel and ramdisk images in
the system folder and open BootX to boot.

Granted, I haven't tried to install like that, but it should work since that's
how I boot now (sans ramdisk.gz).


> I've just received my LinuxPPC R4 CD but I'm having problems getting it
> installed. I'm using BootX as supplied on the CD but the installer freezes
> after only 20 or so lines have appeared on the screen with the error
> "Sequencer Ram parity error" whatever that means? I have had MKLinux
> running on this machine recently and the MacOS works fine so I assume it is
> a Linux problem with my machine.

> 7500 with a 233 604E 176Mb Ram running OS8.6

> Any help much appreciated

> Phil Read
> Worthing
> West Sussex
> UK

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LinuxPPC installation problems

Post by Werner Schmid » Thu, 20 May 1999 04:00:00


Try having a look at
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/Forum10/HTML/000003.html

You may find it helpful, even though a bit verbose.

Good Luck

Cheers

 
 
 

LinuxPPC installation problems

Post by Phil Re » Sat, 22 May 1999 04:00:00




>I had the same problem Phil. I had to download the latest BootX and kernel
>image. Now everything works great. Just drop the kernel and ramdisk images in
>the system folder and open BootX to boot.

>Granted, I haven't tried to install like that, but it should work since that's
>how I boot now (sans ramdisk.gz).

Yep this fixed it, well changing the kernel to 2.2.7 did anyway, many
thanx.

Phil Read
Worthing
West Sussex
UK

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