Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Re: Beige G3/300 Install bug?

[Andrew McCall]

Pieter Van den Abeele wrote:

>It appears that this is some kind of kernel bug (either a misconfiguration on
>my part or some upstream bug). I have opened a bug on this on
>bugs.gentoo.org.
>
>Absolutely not your fault.
>
>What you can do in the mean time, should you definately want to install
>gentoo :-) is:
>
>make two new partitions, install ydl on one, boot from ydl, extract a stage
>on the other partition, follow the install manual.
>
>Pieter
>
>On 26/08/03 10:22 +0100, Andrew McCall wrote:
>
>
>>Hi Folks,
>>
>>This is my first time with Linux on a PPC, and with Gentoo - so please
>>be kind (although I am not a Linux newbie) :)
>>
>>Some people on this list may have been around in #gentoo-ppc while I was
>>experiencing this problem, I am typing all this from memory, so if any
>>of them notice any inaccurcies from their IRC logs (I don't keep any!),
>>please feel free to correct me.
>>
>>I have a spare PowerMac G3/300 with 256Mb RAM sat in my room, and I
>>thought this would make a great machine to run Linux on.  After a a look
>>at YellowDog, Mandrake and Gentoo, I decided to choose Gentoo so I could
>>optimise for my hardware and get a nice slimmed down install by choosing
>>to add the stuff I want rather than take off the stuff I don't want ala
>>YellowDog.
>>
>>I downloaded the livecd-g3-grp-1.4-cd1.iso from here :
>>
>>http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/releases/ppc/1.4/livecd/livecd-g3-grp-1.4-cd1.iso
>>
>>Burned it to a CD using Roxio Toast 5.2.1 and tried to boot by holding
>>down the "C" key.  This didn't work - is this right?  I thought the
>>installation instructions were a little bit unclear in this area.  Can
>>an OldWold machine boot from CD using the "C" key?
>>
>>I then downloaded BootX from here :
>>
>>http://penguinppc.org/~benh/BootX_1.2.2.sit
>>
>>I installed as directed, and copied initrd.img.gz and vmlinux to the
>>"Linux Kernels" folder in my System Folder.
>>
>>With the CD in the drive, I ran BootX app and choose these options:
>>
>>Kernel - vmlinux
>>Root device - /dev/ram
>>More kernel arguments - initrd=/boot/initrd.img.gz initrd-size=11000
>>read-write
>>
>>I then pressed "Linux" to boot the chosen kernel.
>>
>>After a few seconds I was watching the normal kernel messages flying
>>past the screen, but eventually I saw:
>>
>>cramfs: wrong magic number
>>kernel BUG (buffer.c 2527!)
>>
>>At the bottom of the screen, and then it jumped into what looks like the
>>kernel debugger (Heh, after 4 years of being a professional Linux admin,
>>this is the *first* time I have actually seen a kernel crash, so I don't
>>really know what the kernel debugger looks like!).
>>
>>Basically the prompt I had was something like this at the top of the
>>screen, I can't remember the *exact* words etc used:
>>
>>ax: 0x999ddvcc assadas: 0csssdcxd
>>buffer.c 2527
>>mow>
>>
>>Then the system was dead.
>>
>>Can anyone tell me if I was doing something wrong, or if its a kernel
>>bug, or if its a Gentoo thing?
>>
>>If its a bug, where should I submit it Gentoo or LKML?
>>
>>How should I get Gentoo on this machine?
>>
>>

Hi Folks (and Pieter),

I spent last night installing YellowDog Linux 3.0 on my machine last 
night so I could help work on a fix for this.

Its all installed (and its pretty quick too!), so I presume you want a 
kernel config file so you can look at the difference right?  Do you want 
me so send, or attach to the bug in Bugzilla a make clone config file or 
something?

Let me know what I can do to help fix this.

Thanks,

Andrew McCall.




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