Sarge Debian-Installer On G3 Beige
I'm unsuccessful booting into a completed Sarge installation using
BootX. Instead the installer begins again.
According to the BootX README, after installation, I may deselect the
ramdisk option. This causes kernel panic, having not found my root
device, which is /dev/hda7 in the partitioner. I entered it according
to the README. I understand this is an Oldworld Mac, and that yaboot is
moot for me. I do not know if working with miboot is necessary to fool
the box's firmware, and it's something I'm not familiar with.
Nevertheless ...
What I have done over the last week includes:
- googling all I can on setting up miboot. (Is this really necessary?
I booted LinuxPPC 2000 on a PowerComputing clone for years using only
BootX.) The advice is not d-i based; seems like I wasted much time. I
don't mind the few seconds' delay in getting into Sarge.
- scoured the fine Sarge installer manual for PowerPC, noting that there
is an uncomfortable amount of reference to Woody. I managed to patch
quik first.b from the console after the installer let me "Detect
Hardware" to get at my floppy before it partitioned my drive again.
Setup
Mac Beige G3/266 w/ 64MB RAM
/dev/:
hda1-6 Mac cruft partitions hfs+ {few megs}
hda7 / ext2 700MB bootable
hda8 /var ext3 500MB
hda9 /usr ext3 1.2GB
hda10 /tmp ext3 50MB
hda11 swap swap 128MB
hda12 Mac OS 9 hfs+ 1GB
I got no choice for primary or extended partitions like on a x86?
The powerpc kernel, 2.6.7, and the ramdisk image are from the Sarge iso
CD placed into the System Folder/Linux Kernels/ and SF, respectively.
(The system doesnt' support booting from CD.)
Can anybody see the error of my ways? Do I need a stupid boot
floppy? Seems like there's something very small I'm missing, other than
a clue.
Thanks for patience and anything that could help.
Duane
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