that indeed solved the init freeze problem. this should be in the docs!!! it would have saved me 12 hours of reboot/reinstall problems.
thanks josh on 8/24/00 11:37 AM, Charles Stevenson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You might try append="hda=noautotune", or get yaboot 0.6... or both ;) > > Regards, > Charles > > On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Josh Davison wrote: >> hello, >> >> i have been attempting to install Potato on a yikes G4/400Mhz power >> macintosh and experiencing freezes and other errors when init starts. i >> have followed the installation manual's instructions and partitioned the >> system as follows: >> >> dev/hda1-4 -- apple partition map/driver/patches >> dev/hda5 -- 1MB bootstrap partition for yaboot >> dev/had6 -- 200MB / partition >> dev/hda7 -- 2GB /usr partition >> dev/hda8 -- 5GB /home partition >> dev/hda9 -- 128MB swap partition >> dev/hda10 -- 2GB MacOS HFS partition >> >> i have run the installer from a pre2_2 install CD, as well as over a tftp >> net-boot with the same results ... the install goes fine, i do the yaboot >> configuration as described in section 7.15.1 of the install manual >> (substituting '-m /target/etc/ofboot.b' for '-m /etc/ofboot.b' since /etc is >> actually on the ramdisk not the root filesystem). >> >> when i reboot the system following installation/configuration, yaboot works >> fine, the kernel loads, but when init is supposed to start one of several >> things happens: >> >> 1) various shared library errors appear. several times libc.6.so has been >> reported to contain various garbage characters, other libraries have also >> reported difficulties, usually this ends with a complete system freeze >> >> 2) init won't start at all, the system just hangs and i can page-up/down >> through the kernel messages but init never starts >> >> 3) init does start, tries to run fsck on the root filesystem and drops me >> into single user mode, but if i try to run fsck it either gives me more >> shared library errors, or runs and then any other command that i try to >> execute segfaults. >> >> one time i was actually able to get into dselect and install the basic >> system but never was prompted to enter a root password or add a new user and >> was unable to log in. repeated attempts to boot in rescue mode from the >> install cd to change root password failed and i never got that far again. >> >> i have now re-installed no less than six times and am ready to switch back >> to LinuxPPC 2000 which ran fine for many months on the same machine with >> only minor installation problems. >> >> if anyone has had similar problems or can offer a solution, i would be very >> grateful. i really would like to get Debian working on this box. >> >> thank you. >> Josh Davison >> onShore, Inc. >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
