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Clive- thanks for your response, However, Performa 6400 is PCI, not
NuBus. Tara Clive Menzies wrote: On (16/12/05 23:11), Tara Athan wrote:I have been attempting to follow the instructions in http://www.us.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ to install debian on my Performa 6400/180. I have done the following: 1. created 2 partitions on my hard disk, one with the Mac OS installed, the other blank 2. installed bootx 3. downloaded CD images from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/powerpc/jigdo-cd (I am using a Windows XP machine to download and burn- I don't have an internet connection on the Performa- the modem is not functioning) 4. burned the first CD using Nero 5. copied vmlinux and initrd.gz (from the PowerPC folder on the debian distro) into a Linux Kernels folder under the System folder (Actually the instructions say "Download |linux.bin| and |ramdisk.image.gz| from the |disks-powerpc/current/powermac| folder, and place them in the |Linux Kernels| folder." but I can't find those files, so I tried using the files for the New World Macs (vmlinux and initrd.gz), which are present in my distro) When I reboot, I see the BootX dialog. There is no response when I select "Use RAM Disk" If I click on Linux, I get a console screen and see some welcome to linux stuff, but it fails at VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block(8,1) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,1) <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds.. which it does. Clearly I am missing something important.. can anyone give me a clue? Are there |linux.bin| and| ramdisk.image.gz files somewhere I haven't looked yet? |Thanks, Tara PS I have OS 7.5.3 installed on the Mac.I believe this is a nubus machine which won't work with BootX; the good news is that there is a way to install Debian using the MkLinux booter. I put up some notes on installing woody on to a nubus mac sometime ago: http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk/selfhelp/nubusmac.html It should be adaptable to sarge. I fear some of the links are now broken and I haven't had time to trawl the web to find later sources. If you get really stuck I may have copies of some of the essential files knocking around on our servers; let me know and I can mail them off-list. I've still got the 8100/80 with woody on but don't use it and would like to find it a good home. I did vaguely think of reinstalling it with sarge and update my notes but I've got too many other 'projects' on my list ..... Regards Clive -- Tara Athan Coordinator, Mendocino Coast Weed Management Area tara_athan@safe-mail.net 707-485-1198 PO Box 415 Redwood Valley, CA 95470 |