After weeks of aggravation, I finally got Yellow Dog 3 to
successfully start up on a beige PowerMac G3 tower.
I don't know if I should clog up the lists with grisly details, so
here's a short version:
The problem occurs when installing YDL 3 onto a SCSI drive in a
Mac with the old-world ROM. Terrasoft forgot to include SCSI
drivers in the "BootX" kernel!
It's maddening because the SCSI drivers ARE there in the
install-time kernel -- but as soon as the install is finished you
get a kernel panic when the runtime kernel tries to mount the
drive.
To make a long story short, I installed YellowDog to a temporary
IDE drive, recompiled the kernel for SCSI support and then copied
the new kernel onto both the SCSI drive (where YDL had already
been installed) and the MacOS partition (which is where Linux
actually boots from if you have an old-world ROM).
More details available to anyone who asks.
Oh yeah, by the way-- since Yellow Dog 3 is just RedHat 8.0
recompiled for the PPC architecture, it has all of RedHat's bugs,
including the maddening little RPM bug that RedHat never fixed in
version 8.
Ken Barber
--
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained
by stupidity."
-- Hanlon's Razor (corollary to Occam's Razor)
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