installation on g4

[Martin Breidung]

hi all!   i use debian-linux on pc for a long time, but i'm new with ppc...   i've tried to install debian ppc 2.2r3 on a g4-400 pci. atapi-cdrom and ide-hdd are generic, the hdd's tested are 3,2gb fujitsu and 6,4gb ibm, both from pc. the hdd's are initialized with mac-fdisk for apple-use in full length...   rescue-image is booting correctly from cd, starting installation and all works well but partitioning. on 6,4gb ibm i've made partitions with mac-fdisk: hda1: Apple_Partitiontable length 63 blocks hda2: Apple_Bootstrap    length 1600 blocks hda3: swap    length 524288 blocks (256MB) hda4: native ext2 length 3GB hda5: Apple_HFS rest of blocks   after returning to installation-program there are no swap or ext2 partition found to initialize nor after rebooting. under cfdisk there are no partitions found, partition-map is empty, but in mac-fdisk all created partitions are listed... but no initialisation under install... after creating partitions with cfdisk too (Apple_Bootstrap partition created as PPC prep Boot #41), initialisation of swap and root works, but there is no chance to boot from ofboot after the command mkofboot... the partitions are not the same as under mac-fdisk, as the 63-blocks partition-map is not shown under cfdisk. the partitionnumbers aren't the same as under mac-fdisk, only hda1-hda4.   with 3,2gb fujitsu it is the same, but after deleting the cfdisk-table and renwing with mac-fdisk, cfdisk report bad signatur on partition 1, but booting works and the ofboot-device is really hda2 because of the map on hda1. during bootup the kernel reports errors in libraries, the errors are not replicable, on every bootup another lib... so i think theres something wrong with filesystems on hdd.   booting the 6,4gb ibm by rescue-image and option root=/dev/hda3 shows the same errors on bootup as with the bootable fujitsu...   so what's wrong, any ideas???   thanks,   titus