On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 06:59:34PM +0100, Andrzej Mendel wrote: > Dnia 21-02-2006, wto o godzinie 19:04 +0100, Brian Durant napisa??(a): > > 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." > > > > Since an Ubuntu yaboot kicks in at startup, I pressed "L" and then at > > the "boot" prompt, I wrote: > > > > "/boot/vmlinux /dev/sda3 root=/dev/sda3" > > > > This didn't work as I got the following error: > > > > "Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > > unknown-block(0,0)" > > > > Soooo, what do I do to boot into the Debian system for the first time > > and how do I resolve the yaboot issue permanently? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Brian > > > You should just modify your yaboot.conf so you can dual boot > Ubuntu/Debian. [...] > run ybin and voila, problem should be fixed. If you still have ubuntu installed (and not only yaboot) and can boot into it then the above should be easy. But how to modify yaboot.conf when you cannot boot? How to do that is not self-evident. Try booting the installation CD (or whatever means you started the installation), let it run until the hardware is recognized and then execute a shell from within the installer, mount the partition where you have already installed debian, chroot into it and then follow the advice from Andrzej Mendel. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> GnuPG key: 1024D/7050614E Fingerprint: 1408 C8D5 1E7D 4C9C C27E 014F 7C2C 872A 7050 614E Learn about secure email at http://www.gnupg.org
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