On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 12:04:17AM +0100, Paolo Perani wrote: > Hi guys out there, I have a problem that is driving me crazy (well I am a newbie..). > I have installed the Debian 4.0 (I tried Netinstall and xfce) on my mac Powerbook g3 wallstreet. The installation is no-problema I install the minimal version of Debian because I only have 1,2G. I do the manual partition and format the root partition with first ext2 and in the second try with ext3. > > /dev/hda7 swap > /dev/hda8 root > > I choose as the first try not to install Quik because, if I may quote from the manual: > > ???If you use BootX to boot into the installed system, just select your desired kernel in the Linux Kernels folder, un-choose the ramdisk option, and add a root device corresponding to your installation; e.g. /dev/hda8.??? That sounds like a obsolete passage in the manual with false information. I reported a bug and attached a patch for the manual in 22 december 2005, however, the bug is still open: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=344477 The correct procedure has been documented several times on this list, heres the principal steps: 1. Install (I think continue without a boot-loader is the correct thing to do if you want to use BootX) 2. Before rebooting, copy the installed kernel and initrd from /boot to the MacOS partition. 3. Reboot to MacOS. 4. Configure BootX to use this new kernel and its initrd instead of the installation kernel + installation initrd. -- Hans Ekbrand
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