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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