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

[Pieter Van den Abeele]

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?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew McCall
>
>
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