On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 07:04:25PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > Hi again, > > I installed Debian (Etch) PPC (I think this is considered to be > "testing"). At the end of the install, I got the following message: > > "Yaboot didn't install. You will need to boot manually with the > /boot/vmlinux kernel on partition /dev/sda3 and root=/dev/sda3 passed on > as a kernel argument." Bad advice. All recent Debian kernels need an initrd (the drivers for the harddisks, and filesystems are compiled as modules) [...] > Soooo, what do I do to boot into the Debian system for the first time > and how do I resolve the yaboot issue permanently? Sorry I don't know about yaboot. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> Q. What is that strange attachment in this mail? A. My digital signature, see www.gnupg.org for info on how you could use it to ensure that this mail is from me and has not been altered on the way to you.
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