Garry Hunsaker wrote:
Being completely new to Linux, I spent the last week making a few fair guesses at search terms for Mandrake ( 9.1) to be specific, Kernel Panic: ( hmmm I can't find the note I jotted that down on at the moment, but it was something like VFS: Unable to.... 01:03), and then in the middle of this having the old Radeon Mac Edition PCI card arrive and working out its installation, and then getting to watch this beautiful loop of Linux self diagnostics run up my screen for thirty minutes, I have come to the conclusion I need to do some hard core basic research.
Kernel panic is fairly general. Have you installed the OS or still trying to figure out how to set it up?
Use vmlinux as the kernel, and all.gz to start the install, formating can be done once the cd has been found and the second stage install has been started. Is this where you start having problems?
A mac partition contains atleast 6 partitions, 1 big one and 5 little ones for the disk driver ect. You must keep these tiny apple partitions, well it always works if I do. ;)
After the install is completed you must change the kernel from vmlinux to vmlinuz-2.x.xx-mdk and use the initrd that matches the kernel you use as the ram disk, these are found in the boot folder on the first cd. You must also pass a command to the kernel, on my mac its root=/dev/sdc6 meaning its the first user partition of the third scsi drive that contains the "/" partition.
If your doing every thing right and your sure its a hardware error check
http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker-ppc/ or sub to the cooker list the folks there are very helpful.
Both the voodoo and usb/fw cards are recognized. ATA cards and their drives should be seen.
Good luck
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