Hi Stew B. & all, Got my G3 to boot with the benh-kernel - exactly as you instructed!
It did not work the first time, but after running "rescue" and editing "/etc/yaboot.conf" so that the kernel actually pointed to the root-file-system instead of the ram-disk used by "rescue", things appears to work well!!! Thank you very much! Regards, Morten Sabroe Mortensen -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stew Benedict Sent: 12. november 2003 13:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Q: Failure to boot installed Linux PPC 9.1 on G3 On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Morten S. Mortensen wrote: > > Hi, > > Just installed Mandrake Linux PPC 9.1 on what I belive is called a "Blue&White" G3 > (actually, it appears greenish). > > When I reach the "First Stage Mandrake Linux PPC Bootstrap" and press 'l', the > kernel starts its initialisation, but does not find the IDE-disk - the output > contains the line - > > "hda: driver not present" > > It ends up with a "Kernel panic: No init found."-message. This, I *guess*, is the > result of the kernel not being able to find the root file system. > > What does this really mean? > There have been issues on selected machines with IDE. The ide drivers changed quite significantly in the kernel.org kernel, and don't seem to work on some Apple machine in the final released version, whereas they do seem to work in the version the installer uses. Changing to the BenH kernel will probably resolve your issue. Boot rescue, go to the console, mount your "/" on /mnt mount /dev/hdaX /mnt (x=number of your /) chroot /mnt mount /proc /proc -t proc place your 1st CD in the drive mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom (a guess, yours may not be hdc) urpmi kernel-benh (this should grab the rpm from the CD and install it) if the above fails, then: rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-benh<TAB> cat /etc/yaboot.conf (verify a new entry in /etc/yaboot.conf) umount /mnt/cdrom umount /proc exit (exit chroot) umount /mnt (don't fret if this fails) sync; sync reboot select the benh kernel from the kernel selections after "l" If this works, edit /etc/yaboot.conf and change the default to the benh kernel. Then run ybin (as root) -- Stew Benedict
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