On Dec 2, 2004, at 09:35 pm, Darren wrote:
There is always alt-F2, F3 and F4 to get some info during the install.These do not work, or give me blank screens, thus I think the installer is locking up solid. If it was just sitting waiting for something I should be able to see what it's doing, but alas no...
They should work up to the stage before you choose your scsi driver?
Yes, but i physically have to press enter on the installer GUI screen to proceed and at that point it locks. I've tried removing the SCSI chain and that had no effect.
You may find something unexpected there. Try ctrl+alt+F2 before that point to get to a bash # plain alt+F2 may do the same, just following the oldworld instructions.
I can see what driver is at fault. It's called atp870u and it is absolutely definitely the SCSI driver. Alt-F2 just drops me to a blank screen with no CLI - I tried typing a simple command (ps ax) and nothing happened, even before I loaded the driver. As I said previously the keyboard locks out as soon as I press enter (to load the driver) and no keys work, full stop, nadda.
I've tried a few, I like being able to have the same OS on both mac and pc - well close. Mdk has never been *easy* to install on a ppc but a working system is its own reward once you've got it up and running.
Theoretically Mandrake should be easy to install - the PC version is a sinch - but alas this is not so!
If you have the means try a min 9.1 install and see if the installer has the same problem, if not try to update to 10.1 or use the software updater to update??? There are holes in that idea but its doable.
Good luck Mark, sorry I'm not real helpful.
It's ok, I'm not blaming you ;o)
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