Endless loop installing on a beige G3

2005-03-24 Thread Barry Schiffman
I am trying to install woody on an old-world G3, using BootX. I located the ramdisk-image on the install CD's, and it starts out fine. The messages seem to be normal, but the last one before the GUI starts says that grep uses an obsolete /proc/pci Anyway I get the first language screen -- and I c

Re: Endless loop

2001-07-09 Thread Russell Hires
> > But, just for fun, I duplicated the command you sent me, and the output I > > get is: > Doh! First you have to solve your problem, then try the new > command! Try ejecting the floppy, it sounds like a "hardware" > problem. Like maybe the kernel missed an interrupt or the floppy > drive is s

Re: Endless loop

2001-07-09 Thread Andrew Sharp
Russell Hires wrote: > > > what command did you use? > > > > dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=2880 conv=sync > > Well, I used the one listed in the main install doc: > dd if=file of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync ; sync > I even preserved the whitespace. Except, I replaced the word "file" with

Re: Endless loop

2001-07-09 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Jul 09, Russell Hires wrote: > Then, nothing. I still hear it just spinning...I now have two "dd" processes > that I can't kill. :-) Use a different kernel, loop was broken. 2.4.6 should be fine. http://www.penguinppc.org/~benh/ Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature n

Re: Endless loop

2001-07-09 Thread Russell Hires
> what command did you use? > > dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=2880 conv=sync Well, I used the one listed in the main install doc: dd if=file of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync ; sync I even preserved the whitespace. Except, I replaced the word "file" with root.bin, of course. But, just fo

Re: Endless loop

2001-07-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 03:28:55AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > Hey everyone, > > On my Beige G3/266, I'm trying to make an actual boot-floppy (because I > happened upon an x86 machine that I want to put debian on). But I'm stuck. I > hear the disk running in the drive, but it's been doing that

Endless loop

2001-07-09 Thread Russell Hires
Hey everyone, On my Beige G3/266, I'm trying to make an actual boot-floppy (because I happened upon an x86 machine that I want to put debian on). But I'm stuck. I hear the disk running in the drive, but it's been doing that for at least 6 hours now. I can't kill the dd process I started to make