On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, James Meade wrote:
> For about a week now, I've been trying to get Mandrake to install on my > G3-upgraded 7300 system without much luck. So far, I've been reduced to > playing "musical kernels" to get it to recognize my SCSI hard drives, > let alone the CD-ROM drive. Can someone provide a basic walk-thru on how > to get this to install? > IBM 2.1GB SCSI on SCSI bus 0, ID 0 > MacOS 9.0.4 > BootX 1.2.3 > Mandrake 8/PPC distro CDs I have 2 ideas for you. Move the IBM away from SCSI id 0. There were some reports on the linuxppc-user list that linux does not like having harddrives at id=0 on those old machines. I thought that BootX did not work reliably with MacOS > 9.0.x but that may only be on New World Machines. What specifically is the problem ? Perhaps some detail such as " I boot with BootX from SCSI HD trying various kernels, the system gets to the such-and-such stage and then complains about ..., the last message on VT2,3 was ..." Good luck, Q.
