Trouble with YDL 2.3 on a PowerPC

[fluxionman]

If anyone can offer some insight, it would be greatly appreciated . . .

I am attempting to install Yellow Dog Linux 2.3 onto an old Power Mac 6500/250 with 128 MB of RAM. I have swapped out the old hard drive for an 80 GB Maxtor, which I have partitioned for Mac OS 8 and Linux - a minimum install for OS 8, since Old World ROMs must boot Linux through 8 using BootX.

According to Terra Soft, none of the hardware I have should cause any problems.

The installer runs just peachy through partitioning boot/swap/Linux and choosing packages, but it crashes in the middle of writing packages to the hard drive. The error message is something along the lines of "kernel attempted to access illegal area". This occurs using the text-based installer as well as X11. I made my partitions the suggest sizes - 10MB bootloader, 256MB swap and 70GB for the root.

In my current partitioning scheme, I have my Mac OS partition first and my Linux partitions after. Is this a potential source of my problems? The Disk Tools I'm working with won't allow me to place a partition before the OS 8 partition. Do I need to find a more flexible partitioning tool, or is this not an issue?

My thanks in advance for any advice you can give.

[mdwatts]

I'll move this over to the LinuxPPC/Mac forum in hopes that one of the JL members that frequents the forum will be able to offer assistance.

[crsh1976]

I had the exact same problem when i tried to install YDL 2.3 on my 6500/250, turns out (for some odd reason i still have no answer to) switching to the 2.2 kernel (instead of using the 'normal' 2.4 kernel) will let you go through a normal, jump-free, installation.

as a side-note, you don't need the 10mb bootloaded partition, YDL fails to inform users that since your mac is "old rom", you already have a mac hfs/hfs+ partition for the macOS (since you can't boot from the cd thanks to an openfirmware).

[fluxionman]

Hmm . . . I'll give 2.2 a spin. Thanks.