Darren wrote:
Kernel panic is fairly general. Have you installed the OS or still trying to figure out how to set it up?
Thanks for the reply Darren.
I will hazard a guess and say I am still trying to figure out how to set this up. I can get Boot X to launch. (The Apple Script Mandrake supplies to get the process started even worked) If I use the vmlinux and all.gz that are in Boot X, I have only once gotten beyond the first screen. Using vmlinux-benh and all-benh.gz, I do get to the beginning of the the second screen... From what I am seeing, I would say it is somewhere in the hardware detection I get. VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:03. I have tried searching for this at Mandrak, Google, and Altavista with no real luck. I found one reference to this that mentions this is a common newbe mistake, but not what the mistake is... (my gut tells me I need to figure out how to tell Boot X where I want to install Linux.) Then last night I ran across something that said I need to replace the vmlinux kernel and all.gz that are in the Boot X folder with the ones that are in Mandrake Boot folder. So I'll give that a try.
pdisk shows the following.
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/scsi1.0' (/dev/sdb)
#: type name length base ( size )
1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 2: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 54 @ 64 3: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 74 @ 118 4: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 192 5: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 704 6: Apple_HFS untitled 40021327 @ 1216 ( 19.1G)
7: Apple_HFS untitled 2 40021325 @ 40022543 ( 19.1G)
8: Apple_HFS untitled 3 40021325 @ 80043868 ( 19.1G)
9: Apple_HFS untitled 4 40021325 @ 120065193 ( 19.1G)
10: Apple_Free Extra 10 @ 160086518
Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=160086527 (76.3G) DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 Drivers- 1: @ 64 for 23, type=0x1 2: @ 118 for 36, type=0xffff
The Maxtor is already partitioned into four 19 Gig sectors. All of them in HFS+ (I thought they were untill I saw that pdisk readout). One web page I found said that didn't matter, that the installer could rewrite the partition where I install Linux. My suspicion is I need to tell Boot X where this partition is at before I start the install... but as I say, that is just a hunch on my part. And without definitive data on how to do this, my attempt at Linux has just gone on the back burner till I educate myself a bit more...
The last time I did anything like this, DOS was loaded from a floppy disk, everything was some kind of Shell comand, and an EGA monitor was high tech :) Then came the blessing of Macintosh, and I never looked back.
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