Re: Yikes G4/400Mhz freezes at init
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.
> josh@onshore.com
>
>
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