On Thu, 29 May 2003, Ken Barber wrote: > 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.
Did they provide a scsi loadable module with the kernel? Does Yellow Dog boot thru LILO? If both answers are yes, then you could have saved yourself a log of aggravation by specifying that the kernel load the module during boot. I don't remember the syntax for this, but it isn't difficult to add. I think Grub can do it also, but I haven't seen it. > 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 I'm glad I skipped RH8.0. I'm just starting to come up on RH9.0. No opinions yet. -- Allen Brown work: Agilent Technologies non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. ---Paul Valery _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
