Re: Trouble booting Debian on Firewire iBook
Well, now I get:
MAC-PARTS: specified partition is not valid can't open hd:9,\\:tbxi
ok
Any ideas?
(tried running ybin -b /dev/hda9, still didn't work...)
Thanks,
Brian Dunnette
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 06:03:24AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 07:13:44PM -0500, Brian Dunnette wrote:
> > Okay... so I've (supposedly) gotten Debian installed on my iBook, and did the
> > voodoo with the bootstrap partition (mkofboot --boot /dev/hda9 -m
> > /target/etc/ofboot.b --root /dev/hda11 --partition 11). When I try to do "boot hd:9" or "boot hd:9, yaboot", though, I get this message:
>
> is this potato r0 ? the /etc/ofboot.b is anchient crap.
>
> > MAC-PARTS: LOAD (noninterposed) not supportedload-size=0 adler32=1
> > LOAD-SIZE is too small
>
> you need to do a:
>
> boot hd:9,\\:tbxi
>
> potato r2 and later ybin configures OF corrrectly. in your case since
> you did the partitioning right just reset your OpenFirmware
> configuration to defaults and you will boot fine.
>
> command option p r from a cold boot.
>
> i highly recommend you upgrade your yaboot package to the one in r3
> immediatly though. let dpkg replace your /etc/yaboot.conf and reedit
> it to match your system (teh bootloader files have moved).
>
> > Any idea why this is? Just for reference, here's my partitioning scheme:
> >
> > hda1-8: Apple stuff
> > hda9: Apple_Bootstrap
> > hda10: swap
> > hda11: /
> > hda12: MacOS
>
> looks ok.
>
> --
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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