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Re: MKlinux install problem

At 4:36 PM -0700 8/5/2001, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Made an install CD from the DR3 disk image on the ftp site. This was done
using EZ CD creator on a PC; we've made intel linux disks from images before
using that very system so I'm guessing it's ok.

DR3 is very old! You should get the Pre-R1 CD image from
ftp://ftp.mklinux.org/pub/cdimages/maindisk.img

Partitioned the 6214's drive into a Mac partition (500 MB w/OS 8.0 on it),
then a root (500M), swap (64M), usr(2GB) and home(all the rest) unix
partitions, using pdisk.

MkLinux has a problem with partitions 2GB and larger, so you should make partitions 2047 MB at most. This is not causing the problem you're seeing right now, though. Also, you'll probably want more swap, 128 MB is the maximum for one partition (you can have multiple), anymore than that will be ignored. For 64 MB of RAM you probably want to have 128 MB swap.

You might leave any extra space unallocated so that you can add it wherever you need it in the future. Oh, and if you never use MacOS, you can probably get it down to <50 MB... I have it on a 25 MB partition on my 6100.

When I reboot, the MKLinux screen comes up, asking if I want to boot into
mklinux or mac os, I select MKlinux and there it hangs. It says 'booting
system', but nothing else ever happens. This is true whether or not the CD is
in the drive, so it's not even getting that far. I have tried this with both
the Mach Kernel that came on the DR3 disk and the Performa Kernel from the wip
directory on the mklinux.org ftp site.

It sounds like the Mach Kernel is corrupted. Typically, it's because StuffitExpander ungzipped it in text mode instead of binary. You might try using MacGzip. Andrew Dumas already mentioned it, I believe.

The other possibility is that you have an extension conflict.

Do I need to put this disk into a generically supported system and install it
from there, then put it in the 6214? (which means finding such a
system...since my other Mac is a 7600 without an IDE controller.)

Well, the problem is in loading the kernel... normally the screen would go black, then some text would scroll across it, then vmlinux(+installer, when you're installing) would load and the screen would turn blue with white text.

Good luck!

Daniel

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