Re: blue g3 scsi post install : wont boot
Thanks very much. I guess initrd is the ramdisk i ought to use. i'll get kernel version vmlinux-2.4.18-6mdk. (can't wait to try a newer linux !) Le mardi 2 avril 2002, à 03:46 PM, Stew Benedict a écrit : On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Jean-Marie Bernadet wrote: i've eventually been through the install successfully (better have your cd drive on the proper channel !) but when it was time for the computer to boot into the freshly installed mandrake linux 8.2 beta 2, i had a black screen just after the install quits. can i use bootx to boot in 8.2 ? i understand i need a kernel and setting boot device. where can i get the good kernel ? how can i tell the partition device name (let's say it's partition 6 from the only SCSI disk in my machine (ID 0)) ? once i have the name, how do i tell bootx to boot that partition ??? Check the BootX folder of the ISO (are you using beta2 iso?). Replace the initrd with the one on: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/initrd-2.4.18-6mdk.img kernel should be the same version: vmlinuz-2.4.18-6mdk There's really no way for us to know what drive/partition you installed on. You could try to use pdisk to figure out what partition "/" is on, or boot the rescue image. Stew Benedict
blue g3 scsi post install : wont boot
hello all i've performed linux installations on both powermac and pcs but i must say i'm quite confused for now... here is my problem : i've eventually been through the install successfully (better have your cd drive on the proper channel !) but when it was time for the computer to boot into the freshly installed mandrake linux 8.2 beta 2, i had a black screen just after the install quits. can i use bootx to boot in 8.2 ? i understand i need a kernel and setting boot device. where can i get the good kernel ? how can i tell the partition device name (let's say it's partition 6 from the only SCSI disk in my machine (ID 0)) ? once i have the name, how do i tell bootx to boot that partition ??? thanks for your attention jean-marie
Re: blue g3 scsi post install : wont boot
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Jean-Marie Bernadet wrote: hello all i've performed linux installations on both powermac and pcs but i must say i'm quite confused for now... here is my problem : i've eventually been through the install successfully (better have your cd drive on the proper channel !) but when it was time for the computer to boot into the freshly installed mandrake linux 8.2 beta 2, i had a black screen just after the install quits. can i use bootx to boot in 8.2 ? i understand i need a kernel and setting boot device. where can i get the good kernel ? how can i tell the partition device name (let's say it's partition 6 from the only SCSI disk in my machine (ID 0)) ? once i have the name, how do i tell bootx to boot that partition ??? Check the BootX folder of the ISO (are you using beta2 iso?). Replace the initrd with the one on: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/initrd-2.4.18-6mdk.img kernel should be the same version: vmlinuz-2.4.18-6mdk There's really no way for us to know what drive/partition you installed on. You could try to use pdisk to figure out what partition / is on, or boot the rescue image. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
