On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Stew, > > on 7500, I still cannot install. Still using beta2 iso CDs. > > Did move my Quantum FireBall Tm1280 to internal bus. No difference. > Then, I made 3 partitions with MacOS tool on fireball disk. Now I can proceed > until I have to reuse partitions for Linux. Latest try was to use all except > some minor driver partitions for Apple stuff and give it to 3 linux > partitions: /, swap and /home. When pressing FORMAT or CONTINUE button - > FREEZE and reboot of 7500. MacOS will then complain on this disk (wrong > format), so I launch partitioning tool (v1.7.2) again. > > In case, I do not re-initialize fireball disk with MacOS tool after FREEZE or > CONTINUE issue (but pdisk on Mac is telling me that partitions exist with > correct type Apple_UNIX_SVR2), installer crashes in 2nd stage immediately > with panic. > I also saw after crash that 2 partitions had identical names - i renamed > using pdisk to / and /home (which did not happen in installer) - again > installer crashes in 2nd stage immediately with panic. > > Found some very old complaints on net on: > - sequence of partitions - some users claim not to use swap as last on disk > - kick out fireball disk > - change SCSI ids to not use 0 (I'm using that id for my IBM disk) > - IBM and TI options per disk to disable (will try this too) > I think I'd try some of those. It's definitely a hardware/kernel conflict of some sort. The names don't mean anything to the kernel, it only cares about the type of partition. Generally it's best to leave just Apple_Free on the MacOS side and let the installer create the Linux partitions, but in your case, it appears disk access of any sort leads to a pnaic. > Still some time left this weekend......"the show must go on" > Michael > Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
