On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Riff wrote:
> Ok, I want to try Mandrake Linux PPC 8.2b1, so I'm downloading > the 2 CDs and burn them. > > System SCSI Disk: 2 Gb > Second SCSI Disk: 9 Gb > Installed RAM: 112 Mb > MacOS version: 9.1 French > > I'm reformatting the second disk to keep 6 Gb of HFS+, leaving > about 3 Gb of extra space, available for Linux. > > I'm installing the BootX 1.2.2 extension into the extensions > folder, the 'Linux Kernels' folder (with its content) into the > system folder, then specify the 'all-2.2.gz' file in the > RamDisk section, and 32000 as the RamDisk size. > > Now I reboot, BootX allows me to start the install, that's ok. > > First problem, the Linux installer doesn't recognize the PM8500 > CDROM directly, precisely it tries to access the CDROM with > the 'Symbiosl53c875' driver. All right, I'm telling it to use > the 'mesh.o' driver, then it reads the CD correctly. > It generally only tries to load that driver because that type of card was detected in the machine (ncr/sym53cxxx). Until the SCSI subsystem loads, there's no way of knowing what controller the CDROM is attached to. > I get a 'loading' progress bar, then a short message 'second > stage install', and then very shortly an error message like > 'Couldn't open RGB_DB (...)', couldn't read everything, sorry. > From this point, I'm getting a really weird display of the > installation graphic interface, some kind of interlaced thing > impossible to use, while the interface itself seems to work well, > it's really juste a display problem. > > Note: I've tried to check the 'No Video Driver' checkbox on > BootX, it's worse... I'm just getting a grey BW pattern for > display, with nothing at all, not even a mouse cursor. > Do you know what video card is in the machine? If you look at yaboot.conf, you'll see various video=options can be used. There is also text based install, should no video mode work. > Another note: I have a Sonnet Crescendo G3/300 card installed, > but it appears totally independent from the current behaviour. > I don't believe this card has anything to do with the behavior either. 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
