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Just finished an installation of Gentoo on a PPC Bondi Blue iMac, but when I boot it up the yaboot boot screen comes up, I hit enter, and then the screen goes white and says:
.... ok
copying of device tree....done
Initializing fake screen: ATV,RageIIC_C
address:81000000
calling quiesce . . . .
returning 0x01400000 from prom_init
DEFAULT CATCH!, code=900 at %SRRQ: ff8lab68 %SRR1: 0000b030
Apple iMac Open Firmware 3.0.f2 built on 04/23/99 at 14:31:03
Copyright 1994-1999 Apple Computer, Inc
ok
0 >_
. . . . and the screen in frozen.
:confused:
lagitus
03-14-2005, 02:30 AM
I think you might need to Zap the PRAM (http://www.google.fi/search?q=zap+pram&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official).
Alrighty that didn't work, but I asked my dad about it and he said that what was happening was for some reason I was landing in Apple's old sort-of-commandline tool, though he had no clue why I was.
Perhaps someone can give me an idea on why it is booting into that instead of fully booting my kernel/system?
lagitus
03-14-2005, 12:06 PM
That command line is the interface to the Open Firmware, which is the equivalent of a PC's BIOS except that instead of pretty menus it has a Forth command line.
DEFAULT CATCH!, code=900 at %SRRQ: ff8lab68 %SRR1: 0000b030
That seems to indicate some error with the OF or its settings, which can be reseted by "zapping the PRAM". That is something veteran Apple users are used to doing. It is quite safe.
Ok, I "Zapped" the ram but it made no difference.
When I saw that messege I thought it was probably some sort of error also, but what I'm wondering more than just what that error is, is why am I booting into the OF instead of my Gentoo installation. Also, Yaboot comes up fine and it says "Loading kernel" and also" Loading Sys.map" or something like that, then it goes into the OF.
leonpmu
03-15-2005, 02:02 AM
Arb question but... have you tried Yellowdog?? Just interested as to why yu chose Gentoo, that`s`all (no this is not flamebait, just a straight forward question).
I did actually. But it gave me harddrive errors, I think because for some reason it was looking for an HFS drive instead of ext3. Or something like that. Tried two drives and got the same result with both of them.
I partly chose Gentoo 'cause it's my distro of choice:)
lagitus
03-15-2005, 12:16 PM
Originally posted by Hmse
Also, Yaboot comes up fine and it says "Loading kernel" and also" Loading Sys.map" or something like that, then it goes into the OF.
In that case it looks like it finds one file from the drive (the kernel) but fails to find another. You should re-check the yaboot configuration and your /boot directory and perhaps (re-)read some docs. You might have missed some little detail.
Try these google searches as well:
one (http://www.google.com/search?q=yaboot+DEFAULT+CATCH!%2C+code%3D900&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial)
two (http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=xx-hacker&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial&q=yaboot+DEFAULT+CATCH%21%2C+code&btnG=z34r%3C%7C-%7C)
NotJustANewbie
03-23-2005, 03:43 PM
I've never tried installing Linux on a Mac. I've seen it done though... Yellow Dog is supposed to be the most stable I think. Check out http://www.linuxiso.org
I did a Yellowdog install a few days ago it it works beautiful:)