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Re: harddrive troubles with install on G3 powerbook



On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 08:40:00PM -0500, Mike Furr wrote:
> to boot to the cd-rom.  The same thing occurs as before except when the
> kernel is booting it hangs at the hard drive init code:
> hda: Enabling MultiWord DMA 2
> hda: IBM-DBCA-206480, 6194MB w/420kB Cache, CHS=13424/15/63, (U)DMA
> hda: IBM-DBCA-206480, 6194MB w/420kB Cache, CHS=13424/15/63, (U)DMA
> <freeze>

I see somewhat the same; booting cold from 'yaboot', mine hangs near the
SCSI initialization.  I find I must boot (BootX) from MacOS (but not
necessarily with BootX' `Force SCSI Init.' on), so you might try that.  This
might superficially work-around our problem, but I'd love to use that 400M 
as swap.  I can warm-boot after that using yaboot (the video doesn't have 
quite the same behavior) but it appears to be fine.

						- chad



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