Re: Newbie Install Question on Umax S900 (and now 7200!and7300?)
Yay! Booting into single-user mode on the S900 and then running the installer using the commands as found in the inittab file. Once in the installer via single-user mode there was a dialog box that asked me if I wanted to remove the PCMCIA stuff. I was able to finish successfully installing the system from there. Now it's just a matter of getting everything configured.
A big "thank you" to everyone who helped me out with this! Things should be smooth-sailing from here.
--Ted
>>> Andrew Sharp <andy@netfall.com> - 1/30/01 2:23 PM >>>
If you are booting from BootX like me, then there is a
screen which has various crap on it, and one of the text
boxes is marked "additional kernel arguments" or some such.
Just put "-s" in there and then click on Linux. If you are
booting some other way, good luck. Just kidding. You
should at some point get a prompt like "boot: " and after a
few seconds the word Linux is filled in after the prompt and
the system starts to boot. You have to stop it at the boot
prompt by hitting the left shift key when you see the
prompt. Add "-s" after the word Linux, or you might have to
type "Linux -s" if it doesn't put the Linux there for you.
Then at some point in the boot up it will stop and ask for
the root password or CONTROL-D to continue normal start up.
Type in the root password and then you have a shell and you
can start looking at things.
Good luck,
a
Ted Swinyar wrote:
>
> Hello Andrew,
>
> Yeah, I've done about 5 or 6 complete reinstalls on two different boxes with 3 different drives. The system boots into the linux kernel and the various daemons and services begin to load. It stalls before any prompts come up so I haven't gotten a chance to poke around at all. What is involved in booting into single user mode? I've never really had to do any trouble-shooting of this type before so I'm not too familiar with the process here.
>
> Any and all assistance is *greatly* appreciated.
>
> --Ted
>
> >>> Andrew Sharp <andy@netfall.com> - 1/30/01 11:18 AM >>>
> Does the system run at all? Can you log in and see what
> init ID 1 is, and possibly shut it off? Read the man page
> for inittab if you need to. The other option is to boot the
> machine in single user mode, and try to fix it that way
> (again, look in inittab and figure out what's going on).
> There may be some slight hardware difference that is causing
> some program to crash. You did a complete reinstall from
> scratch, right?
>
> a
>
> Ted Swinyar wrote:
> >
> > Nope. Replacing the drive seems to have done away with the SCSI errors I was having problems with.
> >
> > --Ted
> >
> > >>> Bruce McIntyre <brucemac@bigfoot.com> - 1/30/01 2:16 AM >>>
> > Before the errors, did you get any warnings, or go into fsck ?
> >
> > At 1:55 AM -0800 30/1/01, Ted Swinyar wrote:
> > >I worked on the S900 for a couple hours more today. Ditched the old
> > >hard drive that was spewing SCSI errors and reinstalled OS9/BootX
> > >from scratch on the "new" drive. On reinstalling debian I noticed
> > >that there was an optional item to configure the PCMCIA interface
> > >that I hadn't noticed previously. On this screen were checkboxes for
> > >PCMCIA, serial, and CD-ROM. PCMCIA was checked by default (strange)
> > >and CD-ROM was unchecked (even stranger). I unchecked PCMCIA and
> > >checked CD-ROM.
> > >
> > >No go.
> > >
> > >The hated "Init ID 1 respawning too fast" are still alive and well.
> > >
> > >My complete configuration:
> > >Umax S900 (8500 clone)
> > >850 mb Quantum HDD
> > >stock 2x Apple CD pulled from older PowerMac
> > >48 mb of RAM
> > >3dfx Voodoo3 2000 PCI video
> > >180 mhz 604e
> > >
> > >I have used several kernels including the kernel included with the
> > >LinuxPPC 2000 cd I have successfully used in the past with this
> > >machine, the 2.2.18 and 2.2.19 kernels, even 2.4.0.
> > > ...
> >
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