Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 16:20, Daniel Segel wrote:I've not been following this thread until now so forgive me if I'm off here.
I'm trying to install Mandrake 8.2/PPC on a Powermac 8600/300 with 2x4GB SCSI hard drives and 192MB RAM in it. I've tried installing onto both drives, but I get the same error either way. The problem I'm having is that I get a kernel panic when the installer gets to the point of trying to format the swap partition. If I don't create a swap partition then it goes through that step just fine, but obviously I wouldn't bother continuing in that case.When you're doing the installation, are you letting MDK do automatic
The weird part is that I get a similar crash when trying to install Yellowdog linux as well, but it's only the swap partition that causes a problem.
I've already tried a low-level format of the drives, and I've tried putting the swap partition in different places on the drive. I also ran the Yellowdog version of parted and tried creating partitions manually - everything goes fine until I actually try to create the filesystem on the swap partition, then it blows up. Actually, if I create a really small swap partition (~10MB) then it works OK, but 128MB or larger doesn't. I haven't done any testing to determine the largest successful swap partition I can create a filesystem on.
Any ideas? This has been driving me crazy for a week now.
Thanks,
Daniel
partitioning for you? Or have you tried that? I seem to remember someone
stating that there was a system for a partitioning scheme that was
successful...can't quite remember it now...but it did work...
Now I cannot offer an explanation for your problem, but one possible
workaround might be to merely create that /swap partition but leave
it unformatted and complete the install. When you reboot and get to
desktop you can always format the swap partition and make it active
from there. I think you will have to have a reasonable amount of physical
memory to do this , I don't know what the minimum is, but maybe
128Mb is about right for M9.0
Just a thought.
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