Re: next release and twinturbo card

2001-11-12 Thread allan levy
On Monday 12 November 2001 20:13, Stew Benedict wrote: > On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Ryan Boder wrote: > > Hi, just two quick questions... > > > > 1. Maybe it's posted somewhere and I just don't know wher to look, but > > is there a tentative date for the next powerpc release? > > I hope to release near

Re: next release

2001-11-12 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Ryan Boder wrote: > Hi, just two quick questions... > > 1. Maybe it's posted somewhere and I just don't know wher to look, but > is there a tentative date for the next powerpc release? I hope to release near when the main distro does - date unsure at this moment. > > 2.

next release

2001-11-12 Thread Ryan Boder
Hi, just two quick questions... 1. Maybe it's posted somewhere and I just don't know wher to look, but is there a tentative date for the next powerpc release? 2. Will sound on the ibook2 work off the shelf with the next release?

Re: past Kernal panic can't mount root, video issue

2001-11-12 Thread allan
Gosh that is depressing, is there any hope, aside from text mode? > On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Allan E. Levy wrote: > > > The problem was do not try to put bootx on a hfs+, that works but > > now none of the graphic modes work (as suggested in the doc). Should > > I try a newer kernel, the card

Re: past Kernal panic can't mount root, video issue

2001-11-12 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Allan E. Levy wrote: > The problem was do not try to put bootx on a hfs+, that works but > now none of the graphic modes work (as suggested in the doc). Should > I try a newer kernel, the card is a twinturbo. Which kernal and > ramdisk maybe. > BTW the suse 7.1 seems

Re: Kernel confusion - DEFAULT CATCH

2001-11-12 Thread Kathy Montgomery
At least now I know it's not some silly mistake I made... :) Yeah, I just configured with abandon thinking everything would work fine. I tried the default config, and it worked, so I think I will slowly configure stuff in/out until it breaks again. Thanks, Kathy Stew Benedict wrote: > Ahh t

Re: Boot problem, help!

2001-11-12 Thread Michael French
Found my problem. Somehow the boot device in yaboot.conf had been changed from hdb2 to hdb3 (the swap partition). Using parted, I realized this mistake and fixed yaboot.conf and reran ybin and my problem was fixed. Thanks for the quick responses and in the future, I will read the docs befor

Re: Boot problem, help!

2001-11-12 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Michael French wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. I went and read the recovery > instructions for yaboot and was able to get in. With these new > quicksilver macs, I had to use "boot ultra1:2, yaboot. Yaboot loaded and > I was able to get into the linux installat

Re: Boot problem, help!

2001-11-12 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:25:23AM -0500, Michael French wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. I went and read the recovery > instructions for yaboot and was able to get in. With these new > quicksilver macs, I had to use "boot ultra1:2, yaboot. Yaboot loaded and > I was able to get into

Re: Boot problem, help!

2001-11-12 Thread Michael French
Thanks for the quick response. I went and read the recovery instructions for yaboot and was able to get in. With these new quicksilver macs, I had to use "boot ultra1:2, yaboot. Yaboot loaded and I was able to get into the linux installation, but I reran ybin and it did not error out, but w

Re: Boot problem, help!

2001-11-12 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Michael French wrote: > You guys are going to think this is amusing. Got linux installed on > my shiny new G4 and all was well. Started using Mac-on-Linux, very cool. > The problem was, I was not content with OS 9.2, I had to try MOL with OS > X. I know, I know, I got

Boot problem, help!

2001-11-12 Thread Michael French
You guys are going to think this is amusing. Got linux installed on my shiny new G4 and all was well. Started using Mac-on-Linux, very cool. The problem was, I was not content with OS 9.2, I had to try MOL with OS X. I know, I know, I got greedy. After trying to boot OS X in MOL, it crashe