On Mon, May 22, larrystotler@netscape.net wrote:
Hey guys. I aquired a B&W G3 the other day. I have since installed a G4/400 in it. I have only been able to get to the install point 1 time. I had to quit because I had to swap the HD I was going to use for the install. Since then, I cannot get past the first few screens. The system "hangs" and won't do anything. Since I only have an old 4MB ATI Rage IIC PCI card, I have to use "textmode=1" to get to the text installer. The install screens will "freeze" at various point and won;t do anything else. I can't get to another tty. However, the caps & num locks will light up. I had tried several different memory chips and CD/DVD drives as well as different HDs to no avail. I plan on getting a Radeon for it shortly, but really don't want to sink any more money in if it won't work. And, it runs Mac OS v9.2.2 with no problems. I have also tried a G3/266 and it does the same thing. I am stumped. Any suggestions would be appriciated. Thanx
Try to boot with 'video=atyfb:off textmode=1' and see if that helps. The mach64 kernel framebuffer driver is buggy.