Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ppc (27 mails)

[Christophe.Banal@xxxxxxxx]

Hello All,

This is a follow-up to Unable to boot SuSE Linux 7.3 PowerPC Edition
Installation CD on  RS/6000 7025 F50 

Software: SuSE Linux 7.3 PowerPC Edition
Hardware: RS/6000 7025 F50 (CHRP)
Graphics Card: GXT120P

Below are the actions which I am performing. Any help or ideas in getting
this system up and running would be very much appreciated. I have purchased
SuSE Linux 7.3 PowerPC Edition   but am open to the use of other
distributions.

1) Boot to the system management services and boot the 2nd cd of SuSE
(bootable for CHRP systems)
2) The following message is displayed to my monitor (tty0)

Welcome to Linux, Kernel 2.4.12

linked at            : 0xc0000000
frame buffer at      : 0xee000000 (phys), 0xd0000000 (log)
klimit               : 0xc03b5dac
msr                  : 0x00003030
HID0                 : 0xf001c086

3) The following are the last few lines displayed to the terminal (ttyS0)

alloc_area_pte: page already exists
clgen: Driver for Cirrus Logic based graphic boards, v1.9.9
Couldn't find PCI device
matroxfb: Matrox Mystique 220 (PCI) detected
matroxfb: cannot ioremap(EE000000, 8388608), matroxfb disabled
Using unsupported 640x480 MTRX Mistique at 4x000000, depth=8, pitch=640
Machine check in kernel mode
Caused by (from SRR1=81032): Machine check signal

4) This is as far as the kernel will go. If I remove the graphics adapter
the kernel will not stop at this point and will begin to load the YaST but
at this point the screen begins to refresh at an extremely slow rate. It
takes several hours to redraw a full screen which makes YaST completely
unusable.

Thank you,
Christophe Banal

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