On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 08:24, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > I've gone through the install procedure of potato on a pismo (a new > world powerbook). > > However the next to last step "make linux directly bootable from hard > disk" runs quik rather than yaboot/ybin. I've tried going to console 2 > at the end of the install process and running ybin, but it can't write > to the bootstrap partition, reporting that the volume is read only.
I don't think one can make partitions read only, so I suspect you made a mistake somewhere. Did you follow the steps in the potato installation manual? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch-init-config.en.html#s7.17 Running the 'Make bootable' step Just Works in the woody installer.
