Re: backed potato

["Christian T. Steigies" <cts@debian.org>]

On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 08:45:43PM +0200, Nicolas Toniazzi wrote:
> This time I've read the Potato "Installation Guide for Macintosh" more than
> three times and looked carefully at everything. I've even downloaded one
:-)
> more time the "base2_2.tgz" file, but I can't go through the "Kernel Panic".
> I've followed all the steps, configured two modules (vfat filesystem and
> autofs), kept the default network settings and started "extracting the Base
> System from /instmnt/mac/base2_2.tgz" And a few minutes later, the kernel
> panic. Here is what's on my screen :
> 
> (many things in brackets)
>                                              Unable to handle kernel access
> at
> Code : 6eee 9883 7e03 be82 6600 0088 1b6c 0050 003d 6000
> Aiee, killing interrupt handler
> Kernel panic : Attempted to kill the idle task!
> In swapper task - not syncing
> 
> Maybe I should read the Installation Guide one more time?
> Please... Help!
Can you tell a little about your system, what processor do you have, how
much HDD space, how much ram?

You say the kernel is working until the base2_2.tgz is unpacked?
Two things come to my mind, you have an SCSI system and the driver fails
when the harddisk is accessed for the first time. Tried the slink kernel?
maybe your root filesystem is too small, how much space did you give it?
You should really give it at least 64MB, but if you want to use the system,
it should have more than 200MB (unless you also have a /usr partition).
Please switch to the second console (Alt-F2, hmm, do macs have Alt keys?),
activate it and type fdisk -l. 

If neither soleves the kernl panic, well, ask on the mac kernel list, its a
kernel problem it seems.

Christian
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