On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, James O'Malley wrote:
Okay, tried it again. Tried all the install kernels and was unsuccessful.
The 2.4.4's came closest. After loading the second stage install, they
kicked me out with a signal 15 and a shutdown. So they exhibited a decidely
_different_ behavior
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, James O'Malley wrote:
Regarding the console keys, I think I had to do something insane like
Fn-Ctrl-F1... can't remember though. I don't have Linux installed on
there any more so I can't check.
Nope not it... tried every combo. I think it's disabled or
What model powerbook is this? You might try a text install and see if
you can at least see what's hanging. I've done about 10 consecutive
installs using my local build and 36000 seems to be adequate. It
sounds like something else is going on. Also trying another kernel
could be an option
don't have Linux installed on there
any more so I can't check.
Like I said, it worked for me, but YMMV.
Good Luck,
Peter
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From: James O'Malley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 4:53 PM
Subject: Second Stage Cooker Install Problems
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
Was just wondering if there was a reason I cannot install via FTP from the
current cooker tree?
I have a powerbook G3 Firewire and have done the following:
Mirrored the cooker tree (successful)
Ran gendistib on it (successful)
Burned a CD-RW to boot the thing (successful)
Loaded gmac.o for
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, James O'Malley wrote:
Was just wondering if there was a reason I cannot install via FTP from the
current cooker tree?
I have a powerbook G3 Firewire and have done the following:
Mirrored the cooker tree (successful)
Ran gendistib on it (successful)
Burned a CD-RW
