Newbie with Power Mac G5.

[Brian Durant]

On 4. feb 2006, at 22.39, Brian D. Carlstrom wrote:

> Brian D. Carlstrom writes:
>> I would run "yum -u update"
> Sorry I meant "yum -y update"
>
> -bri

OK, everything seemed to update OK, the new kernel got installed  
along with the other packages. No errors. There was some temporary  
scrambled text, but pressing an arrow key and everything got back to  
looking the way it should. Still having to do everything in root at  
this point. Everything finished and I got the normal blinking cursor  
next to a root at localhost and then all of a sudden I lost keyboard  
control. No keys worked at all and the following message kept  
repeating itself and scrolling:

"ata1: comman 0x35 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stal 0x4
hda lost interrupt
mpic_enable_irq timeout"

I believe, but am not totally sure that this is the same message that  
I saw the other times that I lost keyboard control. I had to do  
another hard shutdown and then booted into OS X. I hope FC4 can  
handle these hard shutdowns :-(

Cheers,

Brian