Re: Linux Install booter problems
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 05:10:25PM -0600, John Steven Sobtzak wrote:
> Dear Debian:
> I am having troubles starting the Penguin-18 bootstrap installer on my
> PowerBook 520. I start the Penguin booter, set the setting to point to the
> 'linux' kernel and 'root.bin' ram disk file, set 'root=/dev/ram' in the
> command line, save these settings as defaults, choose 'Boot Now', and it
> stops on a white screen with black lettering (monochrome screen) saying:
You must be using the potato installer? The woody installer's
kernel file is named linux.bin, and uses Penguin-19.
With only 12MB of memory, you're better off using potato
anyway. that might not be enough for woody.
> *** BUS ERROR *** FORMAT=7
> Current process id is 1
> BAD KERNEL TRAP: 00000000
> PC: [<00159a3a>]
> SR: 2010 SP: 00b25ec8 a2: 00b24000
> d0: 00007fff d1: 0000ea60 d2: 00000000 d3: 00000001
> d4: 00000001 d5: 00000005 a0: 50f08000 a1: 00000000
> Process swapper (pid: 1, stackpage=00b25000)
> Frame format=7 eff addr=00b25f40 ssw=0125 faddr=50f08000
> wb 1 stat/addr/data: 0025 50f08000 ffffffff
> wb 2 stat/addr/data: 0025 50f08000 ffffffff
> wb 3 stat/addr/data: 0005 00b25f30 00000000
> push data: ffffffff 00000002 001aee00 0011eb38
> Stack from 00b25f30:
> 00000000 00000001 001aee00 0011eb38 50f0a000 00159ec2 0011eb38 0011eb38
> 00000001 00000000 0015ca18 0011eb38 00ad1110 00159854 0011eb38 00000000
> 00158b34 0011eb38 00000000 0011eb38 00158b04 00158b86 0011eb38 0015ca18
> 00000001 00000001 0011eb38 0011ec3a 00154a1a 0011eb38 00002918 00002000
> 00155738 00000001 00000001 00000000 00000005 00002918 00002000 00151fda
> 00000000 00000001 00000000 00b2a400 0000215a 0012343f 00002164 00000000
> Call Trace:
> [<00002918>] [<00002000>] [<00002918>] [<00002918>]
> [<0000215a>] [<00002164>] [<0000294c>]
> Code: 1030 c800 1980 d864 524c 7605 b68c 6cf0 4878 0003
>
>
> I've also attached several logs I made while trying to get the program
> up and running. I copied into some of these files the specs to my machine
> that are under the "Hardware" menu of the Penguin program (Show Machine
> Profile, Show SCSI Info, Show Device Mappings).
>
> This is what I know. I don't know if I need to try some additional
> command line args prior to selecting "Boot Now", or if I need a different
> kernel, etc. Please look things over and get back to me at this email
> address.
>
> Thanks. John
You're getting the kernel launched, at least. Were you sure
to launch MacOS holding the shift key down, to disable extensions,
before launching Penguin? I got all sorts of strange things
happening before I learned to do that, although I usually got
farther than you're getting.
One more thought, when you downloaded 'linux' under MacOS, did
you download it 'as binary' not 'as text'? Most web browsers
on the Mac assume it's text if it doesn't have any extension -
one reason the name was changed to linux.bin. That has problems
too, if you have Stuffit or Fetch set up to automatically extract
Nacbinary encoded files, they will assume from the .bin extension
that they are to decode the file - which will destroy it.
--
"The way the Romans made sure their bridges worked is what
we should do with software engineers. They put the designer
under the bridge, and then they marched over it."
-- Lawrence Bernstein, Discover, Feb 2003
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