Stew Benedict wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Paul Rodriguez wrote:
>
>
>>Stew Benedict wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Paul Rodriguez wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Also, I currently have two sets of Linux partitions in addition to my
>>>>mac os 9 partition. Can I repartion my Linux partitions without
>>>>effecting my Mac one? No need for a mac os reinstall?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>You should be able too, if we can get you that far. =(
>>>I forget - have you tried both 2.2 and 2.4 kernels and stage1 images?
>>>
>>>I would be curious if you could boot the rescue image, and then manually
>>>modprobe the appropriate scsi driver, and still get the kernel panic.
>>>
>>>Stew Benedict
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>With the 2.2 kernel (instead of vmlinux or 2.4) I get farther. Up to
>>the point when it looks for the disks to partition ("doPartitionDisks").
>> Then it tells me that I have no valid devices on which to create new
>>filesystems.
>>
>>
>
> This is good - actually. It should have offered you an opportunity to
> install some SCSI modules. As an alternative, you can open VT2 and
> modprobe them manually. It is probably "mesh" or "mac53c94":
>
> modprobe mesh
>
> or
>
> modprobe mac53c94
>
>
> Do this before you get to disk partitioning. Is the CD scsi too? Odd that
> ot is seen but not the hard, drives, unless they use different
> controllers.
>
> Expert mode will definitely let you add the SCSI modules. I've been
> working with the IBM user trying to resolve that issue, and have been
> running in expert mode.
>
>
>>With the 2.4 kernel it doesn't recognize my cdrom drive. (A CD-MATSHITA
>>ZS20 CDROM CR-585, stock with my G3.)
>>
>>
>
> Kernel should not make any difference here. Both have the appropriate
> modules?
>
>
>>Using either rescue image with any kernel panics me out and recommends I
>>try init= or id= in the kernel arguments. I've tried different init's
>>but to no avail.
>>
>>
>
> You are doing something wrong here in booting the rescue. Are you using
> root=/dev/ram3, setting the ramdisk to 32000 and still using all.gz, but
> with "rescue" as kernel parameters?
>
>
>>PS I also notice blue error messages in the background when I'm doing
>>a text install. For example as I'm choosing reccommended or expert
>>install I see the perl locale messages in blue in the background.
>>
>>
>
> Normal - ugly but normal.
>
> Stew Benedict
>
>
It already has detected Symbios|53c875, mesh and mac53c94. There
doesn't seem to be any place to manually type in modprobe.
I'm not sure what you mean about root=/dev/ram3 . There is no space to
type this in on my Bootx screen except the kernel parameters.
-Paul Rodriguez
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