Update: The reason I went with a network install was that the CDROM in this iMac was fried. Since I couldn't get it to boot, I gave up on that iMac and selected another one with the same specs (we have them coming out our ears). This one has a working CDROM, so I was able to do something I didn't do before: Initialize the hard drive by booting off a MacOS CD. Maybe that was my problem...
So this time I did a CD install, and it went flawlessly. After all was installed, it rebooted just fine. I logged in as an unprivileged user and typed "startx". The Mandrake first timer stuff came up, and I went through that. Now I have a new showstopper of a problem: While in KDE, the screen blanks out for about a second every 10 seconds or so. I cannot even imagine what could cause this! Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Remember, this iMac worked fine in MacOS, and works fine in Mandrake as long as X isn't running. I really want to have a Mandrake PPC graphical workstation on my desk, and I can't just keep switching iMacs.. I will eventually run out of options. Thanks, Curtis + -----Original Message----- + From: Curtis Kline + Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 12:50 PM + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] + Subject: iMac boot problem + + + I have an iMac 333Mhz with a 6 Gig drive and 96MB RAM. I did a netboot + and an FTP install of Mandrake PPC 8.2, and the install process seemed + to go well. When it said I needed to reboot to start + Mandrake, I did so. + I get a bootloader menu and choose "l" for linux. Then Yaboot + comes up, + and soon it attempts to load the kernel. It then fails: + + "hd:5,/vmlinuz-2.4.18-6.1mdk: Unknown or corrupt filesystem" + + I tried going into OpenFirmware and entering: + + "setenv boot-device hd:5,\\:tbxi" + + Rebooting after this produces exactly the same results. + + + Any ideas on how to get my iMac to boot Mandrake would be hugely + appreciated. + + + Thanks, + Curtis + + + ______________________________________ + Curtis Kline + Residential Network Coordinator + University of California Santa Barbara + 805.893.4016 Voice + 805.893.4766 FAX + + GnuPG Key Fingerprint + 0E9B 4BAB B64D 9CB9 022C AB36 0CF6 E1D4 CCA5 F3AE + Public key here: http://gollum.resnet.ucsb.edu/ckkey.txt + + +
