Might be totally unrelated, but I've seen the same jailbird stripes
pattern,
on my old Dell Dimension XPS R400 (a Pentium II, circa 1998, recently
revived).
Turned out it was something to do with the power management. My
monitor is
supposed to be power management friendly, but not with Linux
I've tried another monitor (an old CRT), removing my TV card and tried
different RAM chips, however, it still gives the same jail screen. With
the CRT I see Starting mandrake or something like that for a
fraction of a second before the jail pattern appears. I'm out of
ideas...
Both
Wow, I solved it! Instead of using the all.gz ramdisk image I used
the all-benh.gz ramdisk image. Then it again asks to select a SCSI
driver, and then mesh.o works perfectly on my PPC 5500/275.
So I set up this:
In the options of BootX: Selected RAM disk image all-benh.gz
and the kernel
I have no experience with Macs or PPCs, so I could be way off base,
but did
you check the BIOS settings? I'm looking at some notes I scribbled
during
10.0 CE install, and it was hanging on boot until I disabled the BIOS
power
management.
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Ron Hunter-Duvar
ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot
Hello again,
I also have tried several PowerPC linux distros on my G4, including
Mandrake Linux and Gentoo Linux.
They all give me the same result: before I see any text or what the
screen is garbled and the computer hangs (well, the caps lock key
doesn't work anymore, so I assume that). The
Hi,
This is the first time i use (well, at least tried to use) linux, so please
don't come with too complicated answers ;-).
I own an Apple Macintosh G4/800 (768 megs of Ram, ATI Radeon graphics card)
and i just downloaded Mandrake Linux v 8.2. I copied one partition of 5 gb
to another,
