Re: Fwd: Re: Booting the Debian installation CD on Powerbook G4 12"
Orion,
I think I wrote my previous message before being fully awake! The issue I
think was trying to point to the vm on the linux partition. By changing
the yaboot.conf according to your email, I've managed to boot Debian
(while on the bus to work!). As I'm not connected to anything, it keeps
displaying "eth0: switching to force 10bt" / "eth0: switching to force
100bt". I guess I need to do a proper setup while connected, but now that
I can boot things should become much easier. I'll try during the w/e to
dual boot without having to boot from the Mac partition. I guess I need to
copy your vm and yaboot 1.3.9 somewhere on the Debian partition for that.
Again many thanks for your very effective help.
bcnu -d
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:22:34AM +0000, David Mery wrote:
> > Orion,
> >
> > I posted the message below to the very interesting thread you
> > started on installing Debian on a G4 12". However I posted it via
> > google and though it has appeared on the ng via google, it hasn't
> > showed up on debian.org.
>
> <snip>
>
> > Following Orion's very useful recommendations, I eventually managed to
> > install Woody on my G4 12". However the last step of the install to
> > make the system bootable failed. I've tried to boot it by booting from
> > the Open Firmware to a yaboot on Mac OS X with a yaboot.conf pointing
> > to the Debian partition... and that fails as well. Debian appears to
> > start to boot but then complains that it doesn't have a root. I've
> > tried adding a root= statement in yaboot.conf with all the possible
> > values I could think of and still no success.
>
> You don't still have the initrd (and initrd-size and
> append="disksize=2.88") argument, do you? That would probably sink
> you; comment out that line. If you have removed that and it still
> doesn't work, what were the "possible values" you could think of? You
> probably have at least
>
> hdc1 = Apple_partition_map
> hdc2 = Apple_HFS -- your OS X root
> hdcX = Apple_Bootstrap -- the 800kB NewWorld bootblock (not needed if
> booting from OS X, but certainly a good idea)
> hdcY = Apple_UNIX_SVR2 -- the root partition
> hdcZA-W = swap and homes and stuff
>
> If you're booting from the OS X yaboot, you would boot from OF with
> boot hd:2,yaboot
> and a yaboot.conf like:
> ---
> default=vmlinux
> timeout=50
>
> image=/vmlinux-from-orion
> label=vmlinux
> root=/dev/hdcY
> read-only
> ---
>
> If you're booting from your GNU/Linux root, you would boot from OF with
> boot hd:X,yaboot
> and a yaboot.conf like:
> ---
> boot=/dev/hdcX
> device=hd:
> partition=Y
> delay=10
> timeout=20
> install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
> magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
> default=vmlinux
> nonvram
>
> image=/vmlinux-from-orion
> label=vmlinux
> root=/dev/hdcY
> read-only
> # append="hda=ide-scsi" # optional, for your combo/superdrive
>
> macosx=/dev/hdc2
> enablecdboot
> enableofboot
> ---
>
> > I'm starting to wonder whether the install process didn't use (from
> > the Woody non-US CD) an pre 1.3.9 yaboot and/or a non modified kernel,
> > either of being a potential problem. I'm a bit surprised though that
> > it seems to start the boot process (so seems to be able to access the
> > Debian partition). Any idea on how to solve that? If it requires a
> > different image, is there a working one available or some instructions
> > (for a novice) as to how to create one myself?
>
> My Woody non-US certainly used a pre-1.3.9 yaboot, but that didn't
> stop me. The "make system bootable" failed for me, too; only today
> did I manage to boot directly into Debian, and I'm not sure what I did
> differently (I ran ybin and then mkofboot, when I usually just run
> mkofboot, but I didn't think that would make a difference). You
> shouldn't need a different kernel image from the one you used to
> install.
>
> I might recommend booting again with the CD and checking out which is
> your root partition, and making sure your system looks workable. I'm
> not sure how "novice" you are, but you should be able to boot with the
> boot.img initrd and get a shell, and do mac-fdisk -l /dev/hdc to see
> your partition map.
>
> Hope this helps and is not too disorganized.
>
> O.
>
>
>
>
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