On 28 Feb 2002, joe wrote:
> Hello all, > I just joined the list and not sure if my problems/experience were > covered or not. > > I am installing on a Power Computing PTPro 250 with 128mb. Clean > install on a 4G fujitzu SCSI drive partitioned before with fwb harddisk > tool kit and bootx and kernel running off the default WD 2G. > > First off on the install had to change size greater than 32000 or when I > was using disk drake I would get segfault when I tried to make mount > point. Fixed that with increasing the size. > > Had the problem that I read about it not liking the second cd. It > depened on what all I picked to install for it to complain if it liked > the 2nd cd or not. When I chose install all it didn't like it and I > forget exactly what I chose the next time (maybe just network/server > choices) and it work fine. > Thanks, I'm going to look at the 2nd CD issue. > Main problem: > Install is all done. I goto reboot and the kernel panics and can't find > the drive. Should be set to /dev/sdb4 in my case. I thought maybe I have > it wrong so I tried sdb5 etc throughout my partitions none of them work. > I get out the old linuxppc cd and use the 2.2.? kernel and my root > partition it boots into maintainence mode read only. > > Is it possible it has something to do with the SCSI driver in the > default kernel and it can't find the drive? > > Is it possible for me to use the new kernel on the cd or am I doing > something wrong. Didn't think I set anything up too badly. I have been > using Linuxppc from release 4 to 2000 and used mandrake on my intel > since 7.0. Unless I missed something obvious. > Are you using the initrd image with the boot kernel (both in BootX dir). SCSI is not built in to the kernel, so you need the initrd. It's possible that it doesn't include the driver you need, also. I vreated it on the 7600, so it has mesh. Do you know what SCSI controller you have? If you can boot off the LinuxPPC or run the rescue mode, you can mount "/" and make your own initrd: mount /dev/sdX /mnt/disk chroot /mnt/disk mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.17-17mdk.img 2.4.17-17mdk (check the kernel version, this is from running it with no arguments) Now you need to get that image over to the MacOS side somehow (net, hfs part?), and use it in BootX. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/ Cooker-PPC IRC: irc.openprojects.net/#cooker-ppc
