Re: I have successfully install Debian on to a Power Mac 7200/75
Oops? you got root? but so much of it!
On mandag 13. november 2000, Gjermund Thorsen <90167484@mobilpost.com> wrote:
>Maybe you need some root???
>
>On søndag 12. november 2000, james@soon.co.uk wrote:
>>Hello
>>
>>I have successfully install Debian Power PC GNU/Linux 2.2 rev 0
>>non US on to a Power Mac 2700/75 (system outline below) using
>>BootX to boot Linux from a second hard disk with a Linux fs on
>>it. But BootX is of course working from within the Mac OS and
>>my end goal is to run the 2700/75 as a Debian only system.
>>
>>All my attempt to make the 2700/75 a Debian stand alone system
>>fails at the ?The Moment of Truth? reboot of the system. I
>>have tried rebooting both from the hard disk and from a miBoot
>>v1.0a3 description as follows:
>>
>>Hard disk boot:
>>Screen goes blank and the 2700/75 seems to hang.
>>
>>miBoot v1.0a3 floppy boot:
>>This method stops at a ?Rebooting in 180 seconds.. ? with the
>>following error message
>>
>>Warning: unable to open init console.
>>Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to
>>kernel.
>>
>>I have had this problem before with BootX when I did not
>>install the ramdisk.image.gz. I have assumed that with a Debian
>>only installation this problem is caused by something new.
>>
>>The Debian install documentation indicates that I may have to
>>troubleshoot boot problems by adding special boot arguments to
>>the system but it seems unclear as to how this is to be done.
>>
>>I would be very grateful if any one could give me a suggestion
>>as to what to do next.
>>
>>Look forward to receiving any helpful pointers.
>>
>>James
>>
>>System Outline:
>>Power Mac 7200/75
>>CD-ROM
>>32MB RAM
>>External L2 cache 512K
>>SCSI ID = 4 Hard Drive 520MB
>>Partition scheme - 20MB BOOT (unused at reboot), 64MB SWAP, 436MB HOME (unused at reboot)
>>SCSI ID = 6 Hard Drive 1.19GB
>>Partition scheme - one partition 1.19GB ?/?
>>
>>James Aitken
>>W: +44 (0) 20 8547 0470
>>H: +44 (0) 1322 404582
>>M: +44 (0) 7768 057306
>>E: james@soon.co.uk
>>
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