On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:43:06PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > So, I finally got my TiBook back from Apple repair, who kindly > reinstalled MacOS. After re-erasing it and installing potato r3, I > tried to boot my new Debian system, and I got the "image not found" > message from yaboot. > > At first, I thought I'd screwed up mkofboot, but I eventually traced > this message back to the problem that on the new system, /vmlinux was > a symlink to boot/vmlinux-2.2.19, which didn't exist! In fact, my > whole /boot directory was empty. And just now, looking at the output > of "dpkg -l 'kernel-image*'", I don't have any kernel images > installed. well thats normal... sortof. the kernel is installed as part of the `install OS and kernel modules' which copies the kernel from the rescue image. you should have at least had the quik cruft in thier though... > Using OF, I was able to boot from the kernel from the CDROM with > root=/dev/hda5, and from there finish the installation. > > One other thing; I noticed that the potato r3 CDROM booted on my > TiBook, but there was just a white screen. I went into OF and booted > using video=ofonly, which worked. Maybe video=ofonly could be made > the default for installations? There's probably some reason it's not > (I know next to nothing about the PPC world), but I thought I'd > mention it. probably a good idea, enough machines need it... it works on all of them it just makes things hideously slow. i would prefer getting framebuffer patches into the debian kernels so its not required though. running a system with video=ofonly is PAINFUL. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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