On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 04:06:54PM +0200, Wout Tankink wrote: > At 13:39 28/07/2003 +0200, you wrote: > >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". > > I haven't given up. > The new benh-kernel at > http://ppckernel.org/benh-devel/linux-benh-devel-2.4.21-ben2.tar.gz makes > quite a difference. > "Make system bootable" works, but again, I ran into errors. > "boot hd:2,yaboot" works now, but booting stops at "VFS: cannot open root > device "hda3" > > That's quite remarkable. Now, my harddisk seems to be at hda (not at hdc > anymore). It's the same harddisk on the same connection with still the same > problems (although one less). > > The automatically generated /etc/yaboot.conf is: > "boot=/dev/hda2 > device=hd: > partition=3 > root=/dev/hda3 > timeout=30 > install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot > magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot > > image=/vmlinux > label=Linux > read-only"
Did you replace yaboot with a newer version (>1.36, IIRC)? G4's need the newer version. There is a link to the latest version in the install manual. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net
