Re: Boot hangs on G4

2000-10-25 Thread Shawn J. Wallace
At 04:01 PM 10/25/2000 +0200, you wrote: Ah, so you have one of the first "Yikes" G4s with the "old" CMD646 chipset ? So it would seem. *sigh* I'd be glad if you could give a try to the bitkeeper linuxppc_2_5 tree on hq.fsmlabs.com (see penguinppc.org for more infos, the _2_5 tree is on por

Re: Boot hangs on G4

2000-10-25 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >2.2.17 - and I found the problem, hda=noautotune > >MIght it not be wise to include a little warning with that chipset driver >that says something like "Warning, if system fails to INIT you may need >hda=noautotune option" > >Just a thought - it would have saved me a whole day of frustration.

Re: Boot hangs on G4

2000-10-25 Thread Shawn J. Wallace
At 05:09 PM 10/24/2000 -0800, you wrote: On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 04:54:20PM -0400, Shawn J. Wallace wrote: > > Like I said, yaboot and partitioning seem fine, video doesn't appear to be > an issue - it's just at the point where the kernel hands over control to > the root partition that it stops b

Re: Boot hangs on G4

2000-10-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 04:54:20PM -0400, Shawn J. Wallace wrote: > > Like I said, yaboot and partitioning seem fine, video doesn't appear to be > an issue - it's just at the point where the kernel hands over control to > the root partition that it stops booting. > > Any ideas? I'm desperate.

Boot hangs on G4

2000-10-24 Thread Shawn J. Wallace
Ok, so here's the dilemma: I have two G4's, one is the older PCI video style, the other is the newer AGP video - both are identically configured other than that with 256M Ram, single IDE drive, standard IDE CDROM. So, installation was flawless on the AGP one, no problems to report yet (excep