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    B&W G3 won't finish boot after sucessful Hardy/Intrepid install

    Okay, I have been searching for days to find a solution to this. I am able to run Hardy Live CD fine and it installs without error. I even tried alternate install CDs -successful install for both Hardy and Intrepid. After install the system gets through most of the boot process but it stalls when scanning the disks (and partitions?)at:

    scsi0 : MESH
    hde: max request size: 128KiB

    with lost interrupt messages and DMA interrupt recovery nonstop. I watch the output up to the hang through the nosplash option in yaboot.conf.

    The boot process stops at the same stage in both Hardy and Intrepid.

    I have already tried noapic, nolapic, ide=nodma, etc. to no avail. Any ideas?

    I have an ACARD 6260 PCI/IDE card with all drives attached as this is a rev.1 B&W.

    Help!
    Last edited by hopefulone; November 3rd, 2008 at 02:12 AM. Reason: append thread title

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    Re: B&W G3 won't boot after sucessful Hardy/Intrepid install

    Open a bug report on http://bugzilla.kernel.org and email the details of your problem to linux-ide@vger.kernel.org .

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    Re: B&W G3 won't boot after sucessful Hardy/Intrepid install

    Bug opened. Thanks for the guidance.

    http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11943

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    Re: B&W G3 won't boot after sucessful Hardy/Intrepid install

    Is your hard drive larger than 128gb?

    Part of the problem may be that G3 B&W Powermacs have a 128gb partitioning limitation in firmware that the root partition cannot exceed, and the Ubuntu installer does not know about. This can be overcome with manual partitioning - I cheat by using the "go back" feature of the partitioner to just delete the pre-existing swap, then resize the root partition to UNDER 128 gb, like 125 or so, make the rest of the disk an ext3 /home, and make a 2x swap.

    There may also be UUID issues in /etc/fstab, but it's been awhile since I helped install a B&W.
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    Re: B&W G3 won't boot after sucessful Hardy/Intrepid install

    No, all under 128 GB. Ubuntu is on a 100 GB drive (hde), OS X data drive of 120 GB (hdf) and OS X itself on another 100 GB drive (hdg).

    I thought about moving the Ubuntu drive to the onboard controller but I remember having two drives corrupted there years ago which is why the 6260 is in use. Boots great in OS X (yaboot included) and most of the way in Hardy and Intrepid...

    When I have looked in fstab it only shows the root and swap partitions on hde. Nothing from the other drives is listed but I didn't expect them to be listed since they are OS X disks.

    I admit being a Linux noob so am not quite sure what to expect when viewing files yet. I appreciate your response.

    Another question, the Kernel Bug Tracker has asked me:
    "Could you try some newer kernel like 2.6.27 or 2.6.28-rc3?

    Can I do that when I can only run from the Hardy Live CD or alternate CD's?
    If so, how?

    Thanks.

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    Re: B&W G3 won't boot after sucessful Hardy/Intrepid install

    Another question, the Kernel Bug Tracker has asked me:
    "Could you try some newer kernel like 2.6.27 or 2.6.28-rc3?

    Can I do that when I can only run from the Hardy Live CD or alternate CD's?
    If so, how?

    Thanks.

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