Re: Yikes G4/400Mhz freezes at init
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.
Sorry, I have just recently found out a solution (noautotune)... :)
I hope some of the uber hackers can figure out the cause I am very busy.
Glad to hear you are up and running! ;]
Regards,
Charles
> thanks
> josh
>
> on 8/24/00 11:37 AM, Charles Stevenson at csteven@terraplex.com 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.
> >> josh@onshore.com
> >>
> >>
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