Need help installing Mandriva 2005LE PPC on Old World Mac.

[JS McAuley]

I'm having problems installing mandriva linux 2005LE on an old world
powermac. The install seems to go just fine until it gets to the RAMDISK
then I get a kernel panic. Here is the text:

Ramdisk: Compressed image found at block 0
Ramdisk: incomplete write (-28 !=32768) 8388608
Kernel Panic-not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3.8)
<0>Rebooting in 180 seconds

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Any ideas where i went wrong?

Scott.

[andrea]

Post by JS McAuley
I'm having problems installing mandriva linux 2005LE on an old world
powermac. The install seems to go just fine until it gets to the RAMDISK
Ramdisk: Compressed image found at block 0
Ramdisk: incomplete write (-28 !=32768) 8388608
Kernel Panic-not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block(3.8) <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Any ideas where i went wrong?
Scott.

Where you put ramdisk image? Mandrake needs u put in Linux Kernel folder,
and u will need almost 32000 ramdisk in bootx otpion.
bye

[JS McAuley]

Thanks Andrea,
I will increase the size of the ramdrive and give it another try. I think
that may be my problem.
Scott.

Post by andrea

Post by JS McAuley
I'm having problems installing mandriva linux 2005LE on an old world
powermac. The install seems to go just fine until it gets to the RAMDISK
Ramdisk: Compressed image found at block 0
Ramdisk: incomplete write (-28 !=32768) 8388608
Kernel Panic-not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block(3.8) <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Any ideas where i went wrong?
Scott.

Where you put ramdisk image? Mandrake needs u put in Linux Kernel folder,
and u will need almost 32000 ramdisk in bootx otpion.
bye

[andrea]

Post by JS McAuley
Thanks Andrea,
I will increase the size of the ramdrive and give it another try. I think
that may be my problem.
Scott.

Let me know your success or not, what kind of oldworld machine you have?
Last week I tried on a 4400 the 2005LE, but after language section a message
about keymap broken appeared and nothing to do only reboot. I tried burning
another cdrom, installation via NFS , replacing iso1 ,nothing to do keymap
broken forever.


see you soon
Andrea

[JS McAuley]

It's a UMAX C500, 240MHZ. I will give it a try this weekend.
Scott.

Post by andrea

Post by JS McAuley
Thanks Andrea,
I will increase the size of the ramdrive and give it another try. I think
that may be my problem.
Scott.

Let me know your success or not, what kind of oldworld machine you have?
Last week I tried on a 4400 the 2005LE, but after language section a message
about keymap broken appeared and nothing to do only reboot. I tried burning
another cdrom, installation via NFS , replacing iso1 ,nothing to do keymap
broken forever.
see you soon
Andrea

[andrea]

Post by JS McAuley
It's a UMAX C500, 240MHZ. I will give it a try this weekend.
Scott.

The 4400 is a 200 MHZ 160 mb ram, now I put a ubuntu hoary but it s terrible
slow, I have a sonnet g3 upgrade on cache l2, but I see the only way to
activate it it s via macos software , have a nice try and a nice weekend.
Andrea