on 8/6/00 12:58 pm, Daniel Jacobowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 08:42:01PM -0500, Josh wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have installed Debian on my G3 Powerbook's 4 gig expansion bay hard >> drive. (I have some experience with Debian, I successfully installed >> the m68k port on my Mac IIci) >> I installed Debian over the net, and everything seemed to go find. The >> installer identified my partitions as /dev/hdc6, hdc7, and hdc8 (root, >> swap, and usr). I configured the time stuff and then rebooted. I >> unchecked the Ramdisk option and set the root as hdc6. Linux started to >> boot and then this message: >> >> No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hdc6. (null) >> Superblock could not be read or doesn't describe a correct ext2 file >> system.... > > > Could someone check with the new boot floppies (available in the > archive by now, hopefully, version 2.2.15) don't have this problem?
I vaguely remember having this problem on my G3 powerbook, and fixing it by BOTH having a recent pmac kernel and using yaboot. STephen
