RE: [expert] Q: Failure to boot installed Linux PPC 9.1 on G3
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 BlueWhite 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-benhTAB 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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 BlueWhite 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-benhTAB 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Q: Failure to boot installed Linux PPC 9.1 on G3
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Stew Benedict wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Morten S. Mortensen wrote: Hi, Just installed Mandrake Linux PPC 9.1 on what I belive is called a BlueWhite G3 (actually, it appears greenish). Wow, /me needs more coffee. I just realized what list this is on. You would be better off moving this discussion to cooker-ppc. -- Stew Benedict Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Q: Failure to boot installed Linux PPC 9.1 on G3
Hi Stew B. all, Move to cooker-ppc? Because the cooker-version tries to repair this or what? There is not much cooker over the 9.1 version, is there? Anyway, your very specific and detailed answer looks like a reeal nice, solid answer to me - a fast reply too - just what I hoped for - am trying it out to see, if I can make it work here by me... Why move; you have the appearance of an expert. :-) Regards, Morten Sabroe Mortesen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stew Benedict Sent: 12. november 2003 14:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Q: Failure to boot installed Linux PPC 9.1 on G3 On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Stew Benedict wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Morten S. Mortensen wrote: Hi, Just installed Mandrake Linux PPC 9.1 on what I belive is called a BlueWhite G3 (actually, it appears greenish). Wow, /me needs more coffee. I just realized what list this is on. You would be better off moving this discussion to cooker-ppc. -- Stew Benedict Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Q: Failure to boot installed Linux PPC 9.1 on G3
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Morten S. Mortensen wrote: Hi Stew B. all, Move to cooker-ppc? Because the cooker-version tries to repair this or what? There is not much cooker over the 9.1 version, is there? ccoker-ppc is a bit of a misnomer. It's a general purpose Mandrake on PowerPC list, both for the development and released versions. I just suggested moving so we don't annoy the x86 folks with Apple noise :) -- Stew Benedict Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Q: Failure to boot installed Linux PPC 9.1 on G3
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 05:58, Stew Benedict wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Morten S. Mortensen wrote: Hi Stew B. all, Move to cooker-ppc? Because the cooker-version tries to repair this or what? There is not much cooker over the 9.1 version, is there? ccoker-ppc is a bit of a misnomer. It's a general purpose Mandrake on PowerPC list, both for the development and released versions. I just suggested moving so we don't annoy the x86 folks with Apple noise :) I'm not annoyed, if that counts :) -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == 37. The sprinkler system isn't supposed to leak is it? --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
