>I am trying to get Debian 2.2 on a 9600/200MP. >When I reboot I get the Disk with the X in it. Which means I >need to configure My boot loader. I can't get into OF I get a >black screen. > >I boot with the floppies and go to a shell I mount my root >partion (/dev/sda3) to /target and run ybin -b /dev/sda3. >It tells me there's no config file. or it tells me it's not a >HFS file system. > >I am used to Lilo and debian on i386. would some one give me a >clue on what steps I am suppose to do to configure yaboot. >If I am doing this ass backwards send me a Link to were I can >learn the PowerPC way.
Yaboot won't run on a 9600 machine (oldworld). If you use a pre-8.6 MacOS, just use BootX. If you use a more recent version and want SMP to work, use either miBoot (possibly via a floppy) or quik, which is the OF bootloader for oldworld. Ben.