thanks to those who have thrown me some clues. I've swapped a compaq presario 1400 monitor for an old Macintosh monitor from 92-95... and I am still not getting a boot from the hard drive.
Here is my partition. I plan this system to be only linux and a basic workstation: /dev/sda 1 apple 31.5k /dev/sda 2 root 250m /dev/sda 3 swap 128 m /dev/sda 4 var 500m /dev/sda 5 usr 1.2 Gigs the machine: Powercomputing Powerbase240 Mac clone. my cpuinfo said: processor :0 cpu :603ev clock :240MHz revision :2.1 bogomips :13.76 zero pages :total 0 (0kb) current: 0 (0kb) hits: 0/61 (0%) machine :Power Macintosh motherboard :AAPL,e407 MacRISC pmac-generation :OldWorld and, per advice , I checked dmesg. I painstakingly typed out it all out below at the very bottom... does anyone see anything that might be keeping it from booting from the hard drive or affecting the monitor in a way where I wouldn't be able to see the boot? Or anything else for that matter. As of now, at the boot it flashes twice or thrice then...darkness. As a newbie, I look at it and scratch my head a little. Does this look like a monitor problem or a video card problem or a-patch-that-i-can-download-from-the-web problem.? any ideas? ...much appreciation Thanks... Vince Panero Dmesg>>>>>>> device tree used 14824 bytes Total memory = 96MB; using 0kB for hash table (at 00000000) Linux version 2.2.20-pmac ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Thur Mar 21 17:08:23 2002 Level 2 cache enabled PCI bus 0 controlled by bandit at f2000000 Cache coherency enable for bandit/PSX at f2000000 Twiddling the magic ohare bits pmac nvram is core99: 0 System has 32 possible interrupts GMT Delta read from XPRAM: 0 minutes, DST: off via_calibrate_decr: decrementer_count = 100003 (600019 ticks) Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 13.26 BogoMIPS Memory: 94516k available (1716k kernel code, 1888k data, 184k init) [c0000000,c6000000] Dentry hash table entries:16384 (order 5, 128k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k) Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: Probing PCI hardware adb devices: [2]: 2 2 [3] 3 32 [15]: 3 2 Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4:Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536) Starting kswapd v1.5 MacOS display is /bandit/ATY/,mach64_3D_pcc Using unsupported 640x480 ATY,mach64/3D_pss at 81800480, depth=8, pitch=640 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 fb0: Open Firmware frame buffer device on /bandit/ATY,mach64_3D_pcc input0: Macintosh mouse button emulation ADB keyboard at 2, handler set to 3 Detected ADB keyboard, type ANSI. input1: ADB HID on ID 2:2.02 ADB mouse at 3, handler 1 input2: ADB HID on ID 3:3.32 ADB mouse at 15, handler set to 2 input3: ADB HID on ID 15:3.02 PowerMac Z8520 serial driver version 2.0 tty00 at Oxf3013020 (irq = 15) is a Z8530 ESCC, port = modem tty01 at Oxf3013000 (irq = 16) is a Z8530 ESCC, port = printer pty:256 Unix98 ptys configured Macintosh non-volatile memory driver v1.0 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size loop: registered device at major 7 ide: no intrs for device /bandit/ohare/ATA, using 13 fd0: SWIM3 floppy controller md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 scsi0 : MESH scsi : 1 host. mesh: target 0 synchronous at 10.0 MB/s Vendor: QUANTUM Model: VP32210 Rev:581B Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 mesh: target 3 synchronous at 10.0 MB/s Vendor: TEAC Model: CD-ROM CD-516S Rev:1.0D Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 scsi : detected 2 scsi generics 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total. Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11 SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 438352 [2103 MB] [2.1 GB] 3c59x.c 18Feb01 Donald Becker and others http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5 sda6 sda7 VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub event0: Event device for input3 event1: Event device for input2 event2: Event device for input1 event3: Event device for input0 usb.c: registered new driver hid keybdev.c: Adding keyboard: input1 mouse0: PS/2 mouse device for input3 mouse1: PS/2 mouse device for input2 mouse2: PS/2 mouse device for input0 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice usb.c: registered new driver wacom VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 184k init 28k prep EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is reccomended cdrom: open failed. VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0)
