On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Herouth Maoz wrote:
1. SusE version: 7.3 2. PowerBase 180 (equivalent of a Mac 7500 or so), with a G3 replacement CPU. This setup works with 7.0 (kernel 2.2.16). 3. Kernel: the 2.4.12 which is located in the suseboot directory on the first CD.
Did you try the 2.4.16 kernel from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/2.4.16/ ? That's the version I finally succeeded with. 2.2.16/2.4.2 as of Suse 7.1 were able to boot with any setup in my case, by the way.
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 scsi0 : MESH mesh: target 1 synchronous at 5.0 MB/s Vendor: QUANTUM Model: VIKING 4.5 NSE Rev: 880R Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 mesh: target 3 synchronous at 5.0 MB/s Vendor: TEAC Model: CD-R55S Rev: 1.0Q Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 8899737 512-byte hdwr sectors (4557 MB) sda: [mac] sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
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That's it - this is where it stops, and the CD/R LED remains on indefinitely. Markus Lischka informs me that he had a similar problem on his machine when upgrading to kernel 2.4.16, with almost the same setup. (Thank you, Markus). However, his suggestion to swap the order of the devices on the SCSI chain so far didn't work.
The behaviour is exactly identical to my PowerBase 200 :-( I will try to send you a kernel log of my working configuration when I'm back at home. Cheers, Markus