On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 06:15:51PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: > I finally went out and bought linuxppc (AUS$15) and yellowdog (AUS$15) > disks so I can boot into Linux. I don't plan on installing either, I > just wanted a boot disk so I could untar the debian base2_2.tgz file and > then use apt. if you can it would be better to boot the ramdisk, otherwise you have to do all the base configuration yourself.. > I downloaded ybin (0.11), yaboot (0.5) and hfsutils and managed to > install them on a 800K HFS bootstrap partition (yes it is the first > partition, well 2nd partition after the partition table itself). good.. > I get an error message saying "can't read config file" so I can't load > linux. I can't press tab as the config file was not read. I have tried > putting in commands manually at the boot: prompt. > eg. > "boot: hd:4,/boot/vmlinux ro" > but I get the following error > "Image not found...... try again" > > What am I doing wrong ? > How can I get debian to boot ? > I can't even get the LinuxPPC installation to boot of the hard disk. hmm this sounds like a problem with yaboot mangling the OF path but i thought that was fixed in 0.4.. what does your yaboot.conf file look like? this is an IDE disk right? it might be useful to try a debug version of yaboot which will print everything its trying to do. if you want i could compile a debug version for you. > Thanks, > Brendan Simon. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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