It's very strange. I installed the Mdk ppc 8.0 on 3 machines, G3 and G4, I had none off problem you have.
I had select Reiserfs as filesystem (I don't remember if ext3 was available). For the scsi card, I'll know that some driver originally for x86 was not available on ppc. Le Vendredi 1 Février 2002 10:04, vous avez écrit : > Hi everybody! > > > I installed Mandrake8.0PPC on a G3 with success. > The goal was to change OS9 + IPShare with Linux Mandrake + samba + > netatalk. The machine has got a 80Gb SCSI hard drive controlled by 2940U2W > Adaptec. > > The problems: > > 1) installation do NOT let me choose reiserfs as default filesystem (I > choosed the old ext2, which is that i do not want) > > 2) the kernel 2.4.4 has got no drivers for 2940U2W Adaptec > > So the goal is so far today. > > > The questions: > > 1) First of all I tried to install from updates a new kernel (2.4.8). I > am experienced with rpms, so I preferred to manually upgrade packages. > > No error was found in the upgrade, except a /usr/local/boot//mkinitrd > not found. > > No problems, I run mkinitrd manually, take a look at /etc/yaboot.conf, > /boot, and /lib/modules, typed /sbin/ybin -v (that is - I suppose - the > same I do with lilo -v). > > At the reboot the error was: > > Ooop: kernel access of bad area. Sig 11. > Kernel Panic (rebooting in 180 secs). > > 2) Then I downloaded the lastest kernel binaries for ppc from Cooker > (2.4.17-8). I upgraded a lot of packages (as glibc, iniscripts, bash, > setup, perl, rpm) and then - with no errors - I installed the kernel > packages. > > At the reboot the problem was the same: > > Ooop: kernel access of bad area. Sig 11. > Kernel Panic (rebooting in 180 secs). > > 3) I am not sure about the use of yaboot. Maybe I fail something. I am > experienced with x86 machines and lilo or grub, but PPC is a new world. > So I installed from the 8.0PPC the 2.2.19 kernel. > No errors of course, but at the reboot a new problem: the screen stops > at the word "booting..." > > 4) So, up to now I am thinking to upgrade the gcc too, and recompile > from src.rpms the very last kernel. but the big question is: > > What is going wrong with my upgrades ? > yaboot ? > kernels ? > > > Best Regards, > > Miguel Beccari -- Olivier Thauvin-CNRS Service Aeronomie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Téléphone: 01 64 47 43 60 à Verrières (lundi,mercredi et vendredi) 01 44 27 47 59 à Jussieu (Mardi et Jeudi) Service d'Aéronomie Réduit de Verrieres - BP 3 Route des Gatines 91371 Verrieres le Buisson Cedex France Fax:33 (0)1 69 20 29 99
