On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Kerbz wrote:
> Hi everyone, > For some reason, I'm having a problem getting into the installer on an iMac > (Early 2001-400 mhz, 192 mb ram, standard config). > > I get to the boot prompt, however, after feeding it "install-atyfb" it > quickly responds with "Please wait, loading kernel...Read failed". I've > also tried "install-text", "install-novideo", and "install-aty128fb", > "install video video=atyfb:vmode:17", and all of the others without > specifying the kernel to use, which gave me the same results. > > I then tried using the other kernel by adding the "-2.2" at the end of the > command, and that got me further, however, not much further. Shortly after > making it to the second screen with the Welcome picture all would cease > with: "Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:03", "Rebooting in > 180 seconds..." > Just tried atyfb and atyfb-2.2 on the ISO I burned, and its working here. The message you are seeing in the 2.2 boot is referring to /dev/ram3, the ramdisk that is to be used to load the stage1 installer. I see on your web page that you've already verified the md5sum, but it is possible that something happened during the burn process and the CD is not a perfect image. I know there have been occasions where burning the image at a slower speed than max of your hardware seems to help. Based on the error messages you're seeing it looks like for kernel-2.4, that yaboot is not finding the kernel at all, and for 2.2, it's loading, but possibly corrupted. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
