I have problems with installing Debian on my PowerBook G4 12".
I 've tried to follow the procedure as described by Matthias Schmidt
(http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~schmidtm/apple/powerbook.en.php),
but it I got the error message "Yaboot installation failed" at "make system
bootable".
So, I executed a shell and tried "yabootconfig --chroot /target"
But I then I got the error message
"ofpath: Device: /dev/hdc is not supported
yabootconfig: Unable to determine OpenFirmware device name to /dev/hdc,
aborting..."
My partition table is:
/dev/hdc1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @
1 ( 31.5k) Partition map
/dev/hdc2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600 @
64 (800.0k) NewWorld bootblock
/dev/hdc3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 57554944 @ 1664 (
27.4G) Linux native
/dev/hdc4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 1048576 @ 57556608
(512.0M) Linux swap
/dev/hdc5 Apple_HFS Mac OS X 58605048 @ 58605184 (
27.4G) HFS
/dev/hdc6 Apple_Free 8
@ 117210232 ( 4.0k) Free space
So, I changed yaboot.conf on my OS X partition to point at my GNU root
partition as described in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/debian-powerpc-200302/msg00307.html
My new yaboot.conf is
"default=Debian
defaultos=linux
macosx=hd:5
boot=/dev/hdc2
device=hd:
partition=3
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
ofboot=hd:2
delay=10
timeout=100
image=/vmlinux
label=Debian
root=/dev/hdc3
read-only"
But then, when booting yaboot (with 'boot hd:5,yaboot' from the
OpenFirmware prompt)
Debian is starting, but gives the error message
"VFS: cannot open root device "hdc3" or 16:03
Please append a correct "root=" boot option"
So my questions are:
-what the hell is going on?
-what am I doing wrong?
-howcan I solve or work around the problems?
Regards,
Wout
