This is exactly my experience on my sawtooth G4, except that I had been trying to get ybin 0.10 to function. I had thought maybe I wasn't following the installation instructions correctly, but can't find any discrepencies between what Ethan suggests and what I'm doing.
> I finally went out and bought linuxppc (AUS$15) and yellowdog (AUS$15) > disks so I can boot into Linux. I don't plan on installing either, I > just wanted a boot disk so I could untar the debian base2_2.tgz file > and then use apt. > > I downloaded ybin (0.11), yaboot (0.5) and hfsutils and managed to > install them on a 800K HFS bootstrap partition (yes it is the first > partition, well 2nd partition after the partition table itself). > > I get an error message saying "can't read config file" so I can't load > linux. This is the way yaboot_0.5 has always behaved on my hardware, no matter where I put the config file or how I invoke yaboot. All it manages to do is turn the screen to green-on-black and give the above compliant. > I can't press tab as the config file was not read. I have tried > putting in commands manually at the boot: prompt. > eg. > "boot: hd:4,/boot/vmlinux ro" > but I get the following error > "Image not found...... try again" I get this too. > What am I doing wrong ? > How can I get debian to boot ? > I can't even get the LinuxPPC installation to boot of the hard disk. Same here.
