On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, David Cheng wrote:
> I guess I was doing it right; just had my SCSI JAZ drive connected, and it > messed up the drive numbering. Anyway, I've gotten the machine to boot, the > kernel appears to load, the root file system is mounted, but then it dies. > I'm not sure exactly where, because it boots up until the point where it > starts to load Aurora, then the messages I get are all regarding an error > during the file system check. I get dropped to the maintenance prompt, and > I can't seem to find anything in the logs. I've tried booting to console > instead of X, but I get the same result (I'm appending a '3' to my boot > arguments, and I've also tried 'text'). I'm assuming that miBoot has most > of the functionality of BootX since BenH wrote both, but you know what they > say about assumptions! I know this is an oldworld machine (7500/100 with 2 > internal SCSI drives), so it's probably not high on the list of priorities, > but I do appreciate all the feedback Stew has been giving to me, Chris Mann, > and others. I would love to get Mandrake up and running on this box as I am > starting to miss having a working Linux box...:) > > dc > > While emailing instead of doing something productive on 9/25/01 12:57 PM, > Stew Benedict wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, David Cheng wrote: > > > > > > That sounds right. I haven't used miBoot myself. You should see the > > kernel load the ramdisk(initrd) and drivers, then switch to the true boot > > disk, provided miBoot has this functionality. > > > > Stew Benedict > > you might try "textboot" to disable Aurora and a "1" to boot into single user mode, until you can get a handle on what's going on Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC Faq: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&m=99441208917647&w=
