Install problems on PowerPC

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 04:26:44PM -0700, Will Pitchforth wrote:

> I have a Mac PowerPC G4 (PCI Graphics)  400Mhz that i use to play around
> with linux. I have installed YDL successfull but when i saw Unbuntu I
> thought that looked cooler. So i downloaded the .iso (i think its the
> 20040915 build) and burned it no worries. Booted fine. The only problem in
> the first step of the install was that it didnt see my network. This is
> odd as mac os x and ydl both had no problems detecting DCHP and
> autoconfiguring on the same computer.

Once you get your system installed and running, send the output from "lspci"
and "lspci -n".  If it works with another distribution, it should be very
easy forus to fix it, given that information.

> audit initialized
> hda MDMA cycletime: 120, accesstime: 75, rectime: 45
> hda set MDMA time for modee 2 reg 0x00211526
> Starting Ubuntu...
> pivot_root: No such file or directory
> /sbin/init: 424 cannot open dev/console: No such file
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

This sounds like a known bug, with a possible fix ready for testing:

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496

If you're adventurous and/or familiar with Debian kernel packaging, please
give it a try.

-- 
 - mdz