Hi people, I need your help/advice on this one : I'm a newbie in this PPC-Linux thing.
I acquired this old Mac PPC 4400/200 with 1.2 GB HD with Mac OS 7.5.3 installed on it. Would like to put Debian/GNU Linux - Woody on this machine AND would like to keep the Mac OS + installed software. So I plugged in a second HD of 4.3 GB as slave on first IDE intending to place Linux on this disk. CD is master on second IDE. (Similar as on my intel-PC) Used floppies and downloaded-base-tarball to install (version 3.0.23 ). I partitioned second HD : hdb1= partition table hdb2= Linux system (2 GB) hdb3= swap 160 (MB) hdb4= free for now Debian-installer goes OK until I want to make the system bootable : - first I choose make bootable from HD (wanting to use quik) : Error : root must be on the first disk. - second I choose make boot-floppy : boot floppies can't be made. - third I choose reboot system : installed BootX on the Mac OS partition, copied linux.bin in the BootX-kernel-map, choose /dev/hdb2 as root-device and choose Linux as OS. So when I now try to boot using this BootX-configuration: kernel boots, the 2 HD + CD are detected, partition check goes ok but when the kernel wants to mount root fs I get following error : Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:40. Rebooting in 180 seconds. I relaunched the installer with the floppies and here I CAN mount /dev/hdb2 on /target. What am I missing? Are there any other kernel parameters I should add ? I appreciate any help. Johan ===== Van Johan & Katrien DewaeleČ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/
