On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:11:17AM -0400, johnathan spectre wrote: > > I am trying to install Debian LinuxPPC 2.2r3 on my pismo and am having > trouble, was wondering if anyone here had suggestions. When I try to boot > Disc 1 it boots up to yaboot, gives me a few lines of text and then just > sits there. One message I get that looks like an error is "wrong partition 1 > signature" which occurs before and after the yaboot prompt. After hitting > return (or typing debian and hitting return) I get some text where it looks > like it's finding the device for the ATI video and then
the `wrong partition 1 signature' is not an error, its a completly harmless warning. its totally normal on CD boots. > calling quiesce > booting... > > and then it hangs (sorry I don't have the exact text, can't take a screen > shot). i would suggest getting debian CDs. potato r3 will boot on a pismo. we don't support linuxppc's broken distribution here. > any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. is it possible my CD > is somehow bad, not sure what that "wrong partition 1 signature" message is > referring to. no that message is just yaboot being anal about the partition table which is always rather bogus on CDs. it doesn't matter its normal. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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