On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 02:23:24AM -0700, Indraneel Majumdar wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to the list (which I've joined after becoming bald in the last 2 > days trying to sort out this problem ;-( I've looked at the archives (also > LinuxPPC archives) with no result. Please help. > > I've downloaded potatoPPC 1st CD and have mounted it -o loop on my > SuSE/intel box and then exported it via nfs. I made boot and root disks > and installed the basic system on our PowerPC Workgroup Server 8550/200 > with 2GB sda. Partitions look like: > Apple Partition map > / 1.2GB > /var 600MB > swap 100MB > swap 100MB
ok, not sure i get why you have 2 swap partitions, is this two disks? or are you under the impression that the linux kernel still has a limit of 128MB on swap partitions? > after first reboot it asks for floppy again and doesn't boot from sda. > Booting from floppy is fine and I can also chroot to /target and work > there (but I can't continue the install). I've also tried to make > Apple_Bootstrap partition as hfs using MacOS CD and tried using ybin but don't do that, you cannot use the MacOS partitioner to create GNU/Linux partitions including the bootstrap partition. see: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc for help on partitioning with mac-fdisk. on other thing, you mention this is a 8550? is this correct? if so you cannot use ybin/yaboot, as your machine is not a Newworld. the bootloader you want is quik. also the bootstrap partition is not of much use on oldworld macs unless you want to try and mess with miboot. (which i don't want to go into..) > I'm obviously getting stuck somewhere. Can someone help? I'm using Mac for > the first time and have never worked on MacOS before (so I couldn't follow > many of the archive threads). I'm debating whether to use LinuxPPC but > debian is such a nice distro (on intel at least) that I don't want to > leave it. we need some more info, but i think your problem is trying to use yaboot on an oldworld, that won't work. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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