Re: unable to boot potato cd on ibook2

[Chris Tillman <tillman@azstarnet.com>]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 05:22:09PM -0500, Jamie Oulman wrote:
> hello all. 
> 
> after searching the list archives and not finding anything
> i turn to this list.      
> 
> im having trouble booting a stable 2.2_rev4 binary1 cd on 
> a 600mhz ibook2. ive tried multiple iso's from diffrent 
> sites and i still get the same error. 
> 
> booting i get this
> 
> Welcome to yaboot version 0.9
> Wrong partition 1 signature 
> Config file read, 528 bytes
> Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC (potato)
> boot: debian video=ofonly 
> Loading kernel...
> Wrong partition 1 signature
> 
> Image not found.... try again 
> WARNING ! default_close called !
> boot: 
> 

The ibook2 will be very unhappy with potato's kernel. We are
developing an installer for newer powermacs such as this. If you'd
like to try it out, 

http://penguinppc.org/~walters/debian/installer/new-powermac

Also Branden has a page about installing on an ibook,

http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html 

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