On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 06:41:22AM +0000, Carey Hackett wrote: > Hello all... > > As is my wont in life, I seem to have picked a really > difficult task for myself in deciding to turn my 1998 > G3 266 into a Linux box, and I have spent the entire > weekend trying to get it installed. > > I built the CDs with jigdo on a Windows 2000 box, and > I finalised them, as instructed by the HOWTO. I printed > out the installation manual, and I went home feeling > relatively pleased with myself. > > As I went along, I discovered System Disk 2.3.1 and > patched my broken firmware. I also installed BootVars, > so that I can change the load-base if I need to and > looked around for BootX parameters that may be needed. > > So, here I am... I am using BootX with "no video driver" > checked (is this the same as video=ofonly?), and I am > sending "hda=noautotune" to the kernel, because the > install halts while mounting / otherwise. > > All of my hardware appears to be recognised by the > kernel without a problem... I am not loading or > configuring any extra kernel modules during the install. > > I have had various problems as I go through my epic > journey of discovery, but the most consistent thing > that seems to happen is that everything goes really > well up until when the installer runs dpkg to install > base-files and base-passwd. > > dpkg dies with a bus error every time. I have tried > altering the load-base to each of the values suggested > in the list of quik quirks at penguinppc.org, and, so > far, I am having no joy.
What are the exact messages from virtual console 3 when this occurs? If you try booting MacOS without extensions (shift key held during boot), then running BootX, does it make a difference? > What am I missing? Shall I just give up and use my > 2-year old iMac instead? I would really love for this > to work, so I can sell the iMac instead :-) > > The machine is a Beige G3 266 with 64 Mb RAM, 4GB IDE > drive, a Zip drive on SCSI, a Rage II (atyfb) driving > an old Apple 16" trinitron (not an AppleVision monitor). > There's nothing unusual about the machine that I can > think of... It's been reliable, but it is possible that > the hard drive is iffy (DiskFirstAid and Drive setup > say it's okay -- I don't have anything stronger)... A patched version of quik is required with this machine, search the archives within the past month or so; unless you plan to keep using BootX - that should be no problem. -- "The way the Romans made sure their bridges worked is what we should do with software engineers. They put the designer under the bridge, and then they marched over it." -- Lawrence Bernstein, Discover, Feb 2003
