> > On the other hand, aren't I suppose to get a shell on VT #2?
> > I don't see one. Perhaps this is the reason?
> >
>
> Yes you are - this is a new one - no shell?
My mistake -- there was no prompt on VT #2 until I hit <return>.
Stew Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 30 Aug 2001, Robert M. Fuhrer wrote:
> > Same here, although I only needed to load the MESH module. I've got a
> > PowerTower Pro 200 (604e-based clone with the same guts as the Apple
> > 9600, IIRC).
> >
> > I used the RC1 CD's, the supplied 2.4 kernel and ramdisk image "all.gz".
> >
> > > Now we get to my problems. The display during the install is awful
> > > in one of two ways depending on if I check the 'Force video' option on
> > > BootX. I either get a nice looking display but the ADB mouse responds
> > > extremely slowly or I get a squished display with odd colors, the images
> > > wrap strangely on the screen, but the mouse functions fine. When the
> > > mouse is unresponsive, the keyboard also responds poorly (very, very
> > > slow).
>
> This is an indication that Xpmac is not running in an appropriate mode on
> your machine.
Looking at the process list from VT#2, I see that Xpmac is running
with the "-mach64" option, which should be right (see kernel arg
list below). Hmmm...
> Options: text install (known to be ugly but works)
> try using install-video and append your own video args
When booting via BootX, I don't seem to get the chance to hit TAB to
get at those options. I tried holding down the TAB key while the
install kernel was starting up, but I still ended up at the "what
kind of install" dialog (NFS/net/CDROM/disk), where TAB has a
different effect.
How do I get at those install options (install-video, install-text...)?
BTW, I tried the "Hard drive" option and the kernel crashed hard,
with oops info similar to what I reported below (sig 4 again).
I've had different but no better luck with the 2.2 series install
kernels. FYI, I'm running 2.2.17 now.
> > X drawing performance is also horrible. It takes a couple/few
> > minutes for the Mandrake install screen to show up with the
> > language selection step.
> >
> > I have an IMS TwinTurbo 4M video card. I've always had issues
> > with the video driver. I usually run in 8-bit 1280x1024 on my
> > Sony 20" Multiscan with the following kernel args:
> >
> > video=imsttb:vmode:20,cmode:8 -mach64
> >
> > I've run with/without the "No video driver" checked, and with/
> > without the above kernel args.
> > > I also noticed several messages on the first console. The same message
> > > kept scrolling by which basically said the default locale was set
> > > incorrectly in a gtk module (perl I think?) and it could not find
> > > the correct information. I doubt that has anything to do with the
> > > problems I have but it could be something to clean up later.
> >
>
> known problem - doesn't seem to affect install though
Are you sure? If I drop into the shell on VT#2 and run "ps" several
times, I see a succession of perl processes, all attempting to run
the following:
/usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/runinstall2 --method cdrom
Judging by the process ID's, several of these were being spawned
each second.
> > Also, on VT #3, I see the following messages:
> >
> > * warning rm of /usr/share/locale failed: No such file or directory
> > * getFile VERSION:
> > * Trying with server Xpmac
> > * starting step 'selectLanguage'
> > * getFile Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/perl-install/po/en_US.po:
> > * errorOpeningFile Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/perl-install/po/en_US.po
> > * getFile Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/perl-install/po/en.po:
> > * errorOpeningFile Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/perl-install/po/en.po
> >
> > Sure enough, those two files are missing on the RC1 install CD.
> >
>
> also known - but locales do seem to get set correctly for other languages
Do you have an en_US.po file that I can pop onto the CD image?
> > And finally, on VT #4, I noticed the following kernel oops:
> >
> > [...]
> > <6> Partition check:
> > <6> sda: [mac] sda1 sda3 sda4 sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 sda10
> > Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 4
> > <4> NIP: C01C3980 XER: 20000100 LR: C027E7A4 SP: C8C53C60 REGS: C8C53BB0 TRAP:
>0700
> > <4> MSR: 00089032 EE: 1 PR: 0 FP: 0 ME: 1 IR/DR: 11
> > <4> TASK = C8C52000 [20] 'insmod_' Last syscall: 128
> > [...]
> >
> > This looks bad, and it never seems to get to checking partitions
> > on the other disks (I've got 2 other hard drives at sdb and sdc).
>
> I don't like the looks of this one either, but it looks like another
> module was attempting to load.
-- Bob
