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On Sun September 10 2006 11:37, Charles Trois wrote: |
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> I am having trouble while installing 2006.1 on my iMac. I have made |
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> other installations before, but never had this problem. |
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> I am using the Universal ppc disk, and I have followed strictly all the |
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> steps in the 2006.1 handbook. I have not made any modules, everything is |
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> in the kernel. |
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> What happens is that, on the final reboot, I see 10 or 15 lines of text |
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> (is that the Open Firmware part?) that disappear immediately. Then there |
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> is nothing, and I have to cut the power to go on. |
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The symptoms seem like a problem I had installing Gentoo on an *old* Power Mac |
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(one of those really heavy beige boxes). On boot, the initial penguin and a |
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few lines of text were all I saw, and the box seemed dead. However, it |
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turned out that I hadn't loaded the right video driver in the kernel, and so |
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(at the point in the bootup process where it changes video modes) the screen |
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was freezing, though the machine was actually up and running. |
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Some things to check: |
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Is it actually alive? Do the Caps-/Num-Lock keys cause lights to change on |
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the keyboard? If you type your login and password (even though you can't see |
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anything) and then something like "ls -R /" can you hear hard drive activity? |
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How I dealt with the problem when I had it (working from memory here): |
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1. Wait for boot activity to cease (no hard drive noise) and log in as root |
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(typing blind). |
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2. "emerge ssh" and wait for hard drive noise to stop. |
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3. "/etc/init.d/sshd start" and wait a bit. (First time sshd starts, it |
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generates some keys, which can take a few minutes if your machine is slow |
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like that one was.) |
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4. Go to another box on the LAN and log in to that one. From there, you |
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should be able to build a new kernel, set up yaboot, etc. |
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I hope this is some help to you. :) |
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