On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Jeff Elkins wrote:
Howdy List,
I've been attempting to install Mandrake 8.0 PPC on a 350Mhz iMac with mixed
results.
1. If the OS9 partition is over 500Mb or so, the yaboot boot loader refuses
to install, complaining that it's partition isn't HFS...
During
Hello James,
I did this same install on my PowerBook G3 (Firewire) and ran into the same
problem. I believe, but have no proof, that it may have to do with the power
management built into the kernel that's used for the installer. What I did
to solve my problem was run my finger over the trackpad
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, James O'Malley wrote:
Thanks, Stew. Okay, I see that you've changed yaboot.conf's ramdisk size to
36000... I tried to install again on my G3 Powerbook Firewire and it hung
very near the end. I also can't seem to get to the error console with any
key combo. Any ideas
Thank you! That worked perfectly.
X is up, running at 1024x768. That's way too much for an iMac's tiny screen,
so I'm still looking for a way to drop the rez to 800x600.
Jeff
During install? A workaround:
Switch to the console on VT2 (Command-Control-F2)
pdisk -l /deb/hda - note the
