Yikes G4/400Mhz freezes at init
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]
Re: Yikes G4/400Mhz freezes at init
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]
Re: Yikes G4/400Mhz freezes at init
in the interest of documenting this further, i should mention that i was already using yaboot 0.6, and simply added the line append="hda=noautotune" to the yaboot.conf in the bootstrap partition. NOTE: adding this to /etc/yaboot.conf and then running ybin/mkofboot does not seem to update this line on the bootstrap partition! i had to mount the bootstrap partition and edit it by hand. josh > > On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Josh Davison wrote: >> 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] >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
