On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, BEn wrote: > This occurs with both Mandrake PPC, and Yellow Dog 2.3 Dayton. I can get > the installation procedure to complete fine, the only thing of note is that > near the end it starts to spit out i/o errors and hex digits. Once it gets
Don't like the sound of the spewing i/o errors and hex digits. > past that I follow the prompt to install the bootloader, which according to > the installation is performed fine. But then when i try to boot linux, i > get to the firststage Bootstrap, strike L for linux, and then get "Loading > second stage bootstrap" with a blinking question mark and mac os face. I > assume its something simple and i apologize to those who feel this is a > waste of your time to read, but i'd like to be a part of this community, > and without an OS i'm SOL Welcome! We'll see if we can get you a working OS. The Mac face sounds odd to me, coming up after the 2nd stage bootloader. Pardon the questions, but I'm trying to get a feel for your partitioning setup. Do you know what partition is used for the bootstrap and linux partitions? It sounds like the OF settings are OK, since you do see part of the bootloader come up. You did by any chance choose to mount the bootstrap as "/boot" under Linux did you? If you can't get to any of this info without running Linux, or from memory, you could boot the rescue image and do some browsing from there. You may find "/" already mounted as /mnt under rescue. > here are the specs on my comp: > 1ghz G4 Dual Mirrored Drive Doors > SuperDrive > Geforce 4 Ti > Pci Ethernet as well as onboard > Samnsung 20gb drive on the ata66 string. > any questions/help feel free to mail me direct and bypass the board > discussion if you see so fit. > thanks everyone > Ben Schmidt > > Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2
