Re: update on beige G3 bootx issues

2001-10-01 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Paul Rodriguez wrote: > Hmm... there is no root device field, but under options, I can specify > the ramdisk, I choose the all.gz from the cd. > Sorry about that. I just pulled up BootX again, as I haven't run it in a while. When using a Ramdisk, that field is replaced w

Re: update on beige G3 bootx issues

2001-10-01 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Hmm... there is no root device field, but under options, I can specify the ramdisk, I choose the all.gz from the cd. Do you know if 8.1 for the PPC is due out any time soon, maybe I won't have any install issues with a new verion. In the meantime I'm going to keep trying. I'm going to try now

Re: update on beige G3 bootx issues

2001-10-01 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Paul Rodriguez wrote: > It already has detected Symbios|53c875, mesh and mac53c94. There > doesn't seem to be any place to manually type in modprobe. > Well that should be more than enough SCSI modules (you really have three controllers?). I'm not sure what to tell you

Re: update on beige G3 bootx issues

2001-10-01 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Stew Benedict wrote: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Paul Rodriguez wrote: > > >>Stew Benedict wrote: >> >> >>>On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Paul Rodriguez wrote: >>> >>> >>> Also, I currently have two sets of Linux partitions in addition to my mac os 9 partition. Can I repartion my Linux partitions wi

Re: update on beige G3 bootx issues

2001-09-30 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Paul Rodriguez wrote: > Stew Benedict wrote: > > > On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Paul Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > >>Also, I currently have two sets of Linux partitions in addition to my > >>mac os 9 partition. Can I repartion my Linux partitions without > >>effecting my Mac one?

Re: update on beige G3 bootx issues

2001-09-29 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Stew Benedict wrote: > On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Paul Rodriguez wrote: > > >>Also, I currently have two sets of Linux partitions in addition to my >>mac os 9 partition. Can I repartion my Linux partitions without >>effecting my Mac one? No need for a mac os reinstall? >> >> > > You should be ab

Re: update on beige G3 bootx issues

2001-09-27 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Xavier wrote: > errorOpeningFile Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/perl-install/po/en_US.po > errorOpeningFile Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/perl-install/po/en.po > normal > Later I also see: > > kmod:failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k nls_cp437, errno=2 > kmod:failed to exec /sbin/mo

Re: update on beige G3 bootx issues

2001-09-27 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Paul Rodriguez wrote: > Also, I currently have two sets of Linux partitions in addition to my > mac os 9 partition. Can I repartion my Linux partitions without > effecting my Mac one? No need for a mac os reinstall? > You should be able too, if we can get you that far.

Re: update on beige G3 bootx issues

2001-09-27 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Also, I currently have two sets of Linux partitions in addition to my mac os 9 partition. Can I repartion my Linux partitions without effecting my Mac one? No need for a mac os reinstall? -Paul Rodriguez Xavier wrote: > Hi, Stew, thank a lot for your help. I tried the alternate version of

Re: update on beige G3 bootx issues

2001-09-27 Thread Xavier
Hi, Stew, thank a lot for your help. I tried the alternate version of bootx or was it an alternate kernel you sent me, but I can't get past the "loading second stage install with that one". Using the version on the cd I get just to the next stage (choosing language, agree to licence, and cho

Re: update on beige G3 bootx issues

2001-09-24 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Xavier wrote: > One step at a time. I found that if I choose "no video driver" and > "text" as a kernel argument (not "install-text") I get a little further. > Now, I manage to enter the install program. I get as far as > choosing the install method and then the ins

Re: update on beige G3 bootx issues

2001-09-24 Thread Xavier
One step at a time. I found that if I choose "no video driver" and "text" as a kernel argument (not "install-text") I get a little further. Now, I manage to enter the install program. I get as far as choosing the install method and then the install language. Later I get a kernel panic: