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Anonymous
2003-07-28
2003-08-04
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2003-07-28

    Hi,
    I have installed Darwin x86 on a PII/233 with LX chipset. The installer on the Darwin-x86 2.5B CD ran perfectly, but I can't get it to load properly from the HDD.

    When it starts I see:
    Loading Darwin/x86
    . before contents not a dir (10 times)
    then I get a whole heap of errors about IONDRVSupport, IOATAFamily and AppleIntelPIIXATA. The last error is IOCatalogue: com.apple.driver.AppleGenericPCATA cannot be loaded.

    I have tried both the full and base installs. I tried to use the -v boot option but I can't read most of the messages there are too many.

    Is Darwin incompatible with my system?
    Thanks,
    Cartman.

     
    • proclus realm

      proclus realm - 2003-07-29

      Thank you for your excellent report.  Which Darwin installer version are you using?  You might want to post this message to Darwin Hackers or Apple's Darwin-x86 list.

      http://www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/hackers/
      http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-x86

      Regards,
      proclus
      http://www.gnu-darwin.org/

       
    • Cart Man

      Cart Man - 2003-08-04

      I would like to post the report to help development of Darwin but I don't know what version of the installer I used. It is the one that is on the CD. The ISO I downloaded was gnu-darwin-cd-beta2.5-x86.iso.gz.

      How do I find out what verison installer I used?

       
    • Yves de Champlain

      This installer is based on Darwin 1.4.1 which is a quite old release.  You might have more success with a recent one.  http://www.gnu-darwin.org/index.php?page=installation has links to informations about the cd you used and also about other means of installing Darwin on x86

       

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