Yikes G4/400Mhz freezes at init
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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