Early boot failure on PPC iMac G3
Bug #173193 reported by
VladCodrea
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Booting Ubuntu 7.10 causes my 500 Mhz iMac G3 to shut down hard 3 seconds after I pressed ENTER in yaboot. By "shut down hard" I mean that the power button won't work, and the only way to restart the computer is by re-plugging into the electrical socket. Passing "video=ofonly" as a kernel parameter in yaboot changed the behavior: instead of shutting down, the computer stalls forever while showing a black screen and an underscore (_) in the top left corner.
Debian-40r1 (kernel 2.6.18) boots fine, as does Fedora 8 (kernel 2.6.23.1) and OpenSuse 10.3 (kernel 2.6.22.5). The dmesg is attached below.
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This is the dmesg output from kernel 2.6.23.1 of Fedora 8. I can't get the Ubuntu dmesg because it crashes too early, and I wasn't able to capture the dmesg from the Debian rescue CD because it wouldn't mount the flash drive.