Trying to install woody on a new Apple tiBook (Titanium) for several days now. (Together with [EMAIL PROTECTED]) 30GB IBM harddisk. 512 MB RAM.
Numerous attempts, following several hints and instructions later I issue this request for assistance. I am willing to read instruction if they can help me, but the instructions seem to be suboptimal. Let me summarise what the problem is: We can boot into a kernel with a ramdisk using yaboot. After partioning the harddrive for Linux-partitions we cannot get a kernel to boot from the harddrive. It looks like the partition table might be damaged somehow. Open Firmware will still get yaboot from the partition and yaboot can find the kernel and the ramdisk, but the kernel paniks, even when trying the mount excatly the same root in the ramdisk. All instructions in mac-fdisk http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc/mac-fdisk-basics.shtml were followed. It should be a 9.1 dual boot system. (Will be MacOSX later.) Booting with boot-3.0.13, freshly after making three partitions with DriveSetup (20GB HFS for GNU/Linux) (64MB HFS exchange) (10GB HFS+) and installing MacOS 9.1 on the third. The files yaboot, yaboot.conf, root.bin and linux copied to the 2nd partition. Then I can boot with "boot hd:10,yaboot" and get into the installer. However after deleting the big HFS partition and creating Apple_bootstrap (with b) and swap (1GB) with c and / 19GB with c the kernel panics. OF can then send me to "boot hd:12,yaboot", which boots the kernel but panics when trying to mount the root ramdisk. If I use pdisk for MacOS and do the partitions I get the same symptoms. Using a Debian potato powerbook CD have the same symptoms. Of course I can install the base system after doing the repartioning, but there seems to be no good way to boot from harddisk after this. Questions: Do you think mac-fdisk(aka pdisk) might not create good partitions due to the size of the harddisk? Is there a way to find out? Obviously apple's OF does not have a problem with this, but the linux kernel (tried 2.2.18) has. It there a way to boot from an ext2 partition directly from the yaboot prompt? How would the syntax be? Am I missing something crutial here? Thanks in advance, Bernhard ps.: I appreciate a cc to me and frank, because we are not on the list. -- Professional Service around Free Software (intevation.net) The FreeGIS Project (freegis.org) Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure (ffii.org) FSF Europe (fsfeurope.org)
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