I have a pretty customised Rev. 2 B&W here. Looks like this:
G4/500 1GB RAM ACARD AEC6712WM UW SCSI Card USB2.0 card/Hub ATi Radeon 7000 PCI Mac Edn
My problem is that when booting from the Mandrake 10.1 Install CD it all seems to go swimmingly until it tries to load a the AEC6712UW driver for my SCSI card. It just seems to sit there after that, as if the driver had failed or something.
I haven't had time to try ripping all the cards out etc. and to be honest it'd be a bind if I had to because part of the existing Mac OS system is on one of my SCSI drives (namely my non-Classic OS 9.2.2 install) and also I have an external MO drive hooked to it as well.
I dont see the mac, memory, usb or the radeon (same as mine except for the rom flash and extra 32 mb of vram) having anything to do with your problem.
Sounds like the driver is the problem.
If you haven't already, have a look through the the ppc-cooker archives or sub to ppc-cooker found in the developers list here
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3
The archive appears to be down, I've found no match in my archive to for your the card.
There is always alt-F2, F3 and F4 to get some info during the install.
Sorry I dont have the HW or time to go further, maybe someone can suggest a second driver that will get you through the install? Mdk isn't very big on this list.
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For anyone interested Mdk 10.1 works well on a 7300/450, big improvement over the 9.1 release, much harder to install.. the kernel
and initrd from the 9.1 install (2.4.21-0.13) will boot 10.1 where you can transfer the kernel and initrd (2.6.8.1-12.2) to the macos to use to boot with bootx. A custom install of packages is recommended so you get the mdk control center and related bits installed.
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