Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Newbie-question: Gentoo G5 CD boot hangs

[Pieter Van den Abeele]

Hi,

Please use the 2004.0 universal cd to boot your G5. That one also 
includes advanced thermal management. (released 20040225)
The universal cd can be used to boot G3 and G4 besides G5 in both 
single and multi-processor mode.

Best regards,

Pieter Van den abeele

On 04 Apr 2004, at 22:46, Markus Kuschnik wrote:

> Dear Listmembers,
>
> Up to now I didn't succeed in installing Gentoo on a second
> ATA-harddrive of
> my G5 (1.8 GHz dual proc.) by using the iso-image gentoo-G5-2003-10-11.
>
> Keeping myself to the instructions in the Gentoo Installation Manual I
> get a
> boot prompt after restarting the Mac, and the booting-procedure starts
> right
> after I hit the return-key. Nevertheless, the booting procedure stopps
> very
> soon.
> The last three lines on screen are:
>
> SCSI device sda: 320173056 512-byte hwdr sectors (163929MB)
> SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
> /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0:_
>
> In the last line the booting process stopps for the first time at
> cursor-position, and some 20 seconds or so later the end of that line
> is
> filled by:
>
> <3>ata1: DMA timeout, stat 0x1
>
> Subsequently there shows up a last line saying:
>
> ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0xF139601C
>
> After that the whole procedure stopps, only the fans of the processor
> coolers start to become extremely busy (and noisy).
>
> Both of the harddrives are ATA-drives, by the way, and I have no virus
> software running in the background.
>
> Did anyone of you experience the same or similar? Does anyone know a
> solution? I'll appprechiate any help!
>
> Markus Kuschnik
>
>
>
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