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Re: problems installing Debian on my PowerBook G4 12".



On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 04:06:54PM +0200, Wout Tankink wrote:
> At 13:39 28/07/2003 +0200, you wrote:
> >I have problems with installing Debian on my PowerBook G4 12".
> >
> >I 've tried to follow the procedure as described by Matthias Schmidt 
> >(http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~schmidtm/apple/powerbook.en.php), 
> >but it I got the error message "Yaboot installation failed" at "make 
> >system bootable".
> 
> I haven't given up.
> The new benh-kernel at 
> http://ppckernel.org/benh-devel/linux-benh-devel-2.4.21-ben2.tar.gz makes 
> quite a difference.
> "Make system bootable" works, but again, I ran into errors.
> "boot hd:2,yaboot" works now, but booting stops at "VFS: cannot open root 
> device "hda3"
> 
> That's quite remarkable. Now, my harddisk seems to be at hda (not at hdc 
> anymore). It's the same harddisk on the same connection with still the same 
> problems (although one less).
> 
> The automatically generated /etc/yaboot.conf is:
> "boot=/dev/hda2
> device=hd:
> partition=3
> root=/dev/hda3
> timeout=30
> install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
> magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
> 
> image=/vmlinux
>     label=Linux
>     read-only"

Did you replace yaboot with a newer version (>1.36, IIRC)? G4's
need the newer version. There is a link to the latest version
in the install manual.

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