On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 10:30:12AM -0400, Todd Shrider wrote: > Ok, > > I'll try and make this as clear as possible. All the files I am working > with have come from > ftp.debian.org/debian/dist/potato/main/disks-powerpc.
My fault :) This should be fixed in the copy in <http://www.them.org/~drow/boot-floppies-1/>. I'll try to do a new upload real soon. > Next, I've grabbed Yaboot 0.5 and I am booting it successfully. > Initially I made two HFS partitions: Partition1 4gb for MacOS; > Partition2 8GB for all the Linux partitions. > I put yaboot, vmlinux, ramdisk.image and yaboot config at the root > level, as well as made a folder called > "instimage/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc" with all the contents from > the ftp site there. > > So, I boot yaboot, boot debian install, switch virtual consoles, run > mac-fdisk, create 800K bootstrap partitions for ybin, create swap > partition and create on big ext2 partition. I reboot again for good > measures, go back into yaboot, debian install, and proceed. > > Everything works up to the point of installing the base system. I format > swap, root and mount root and then mount the HFS partition no problem. > However, I am booted back to the install menu and get a message on > virtual console 3 that says something like: > > Found rescue.bin but kernel image was not in default location. > > I am wondering if I am either missing someting obvious or if I am not > familiar with how the files should be layed out on the HFS partitions, > or if I am just missing a file somewhere. If anyone has any clue, I'd > appreciate it. Thanks, and otherwise, back to the grind stone. > > -todd > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
