debian-powerpc: booting a PowerBook Titanium G4
I've just bought a Titanium and am trying to get Debian going. I've got
a PowerBook G3 and want to copy my root partition accross to the new
machine via the network. I also have to partition and install yaboot.
What is the easiest way to do this ? Will the PowerPC CD image boot the
Titanium ??? To install on the G3 I had to copy kernels and other files
to a small (1GB) MacOS partition and boot the system via OpenFirmware.
I'm trying this now but it was a year ago when I last did this and
things aren't quite working. Is NFS an option ???
To partition I need to use mac-fdisk which means I have to boot linux.
I have a 2.4.2 kernel and the ramdisk.image.gz file from 2.2r3 in the
root directory of my MacOS partition. Is this all I need ? I tried
typing "boot hd:10,vmlinux-2.4.2-bjs" and OF responded with "CLAIM
failed". Does this mean it could not claim the memory ??? I've tried
with root=/dev/ram and initrd=ramdisk.image.gz but the same error
occurs. It seems the kernel isn't loading at all.
Any ideas ???
Is there an easier way ???
Any howtos for Titanium ???
Thanks,
Brendan Simon.
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