Steve Leventhal (steve@leventhal.com)
Thu, 8 Oct 1998 21:49:46 -0700 (MST)
Well, the dance seems to work. However, the installer from both the
linuxppc site and the dodds site hang with a line at the bottom of the
screen:
Failure in kernel at PC: c00d371c, MSR: 89930 (dodds installer)
This is after recognizing the external cdrom and hd, and such. Anyone know
of another installer (I'll keep trying different ones from places around
the 'net, but if anyone has one that works, I'd love to know where it came
from).
Thanks for the help,
Steve Leventhal
>Hi,
> After Much (yes, that's a capital M) trying various things, doing boot
>dances, and jiggling the cable, the installer.coff finally worked.. the
>best instructions I've seen posted so far are:
>
>1) remove the top of the case
>2) turn the key to maintenance mode (the little wrench)
>3) press the little red button on the mother board
>4) unplug the machine and remove the battery from the motherboard for an
> hour
>5) while holding the red button down, insert the battery again
>6) plug in the case
>7) power on by using the keyboard power button. Under no circumstances
> touch any of the front buttons on the tower
>8) hold down <OPTION><COMMAND>O-F and hopefully the open firmware prompt
> will come up
>9) do 'set auto-boot? false' and 'set real-mode? false' I think.. this
> might be optional
>10) do the 'boot fd:installer.coff' and follow all the instructions..
>
>don't use the installer.coff from dusers as it locks up during install.. I
>used the one from dodds.net but all of them seem to work ok so long as you
>do the magic dance before hand.. have the kernel from dusers on hand
>because if you install X from the installer, the colours will be all
>messed up and the new kernel will fix this..
>
>
>nm
>
>
>On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Steve Leventhal wrote:
>
>> How did you get your machine to install? Did you install off a floppy?
>> Did you get any Default Catch problems?
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> PS the hellfire.dusers.drexel.edu site has a kernel which is (now) supposed
>> to be OK, but as I can't get anything installed, I haven't tried it.
>>
>>
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