Hi Sven, Eventually successfull installation of Sarge on the F50. After few tries I found that auto-boot can be done using a PReP partition. So I think you can leave the vfat out of the initrd and try to put the option of creating PReP partiton. Thanks for the help.
Now I have to check: 1. Install yaboot on sda1. Someone knows if yaboot works on this boxes. 2. When I start GDM the screen turns to black and the CPU is 99.9% w/ XFree86 process. My card is MGA G200 PCI. I have no idea why. Maybe V4 is not supporting this card ?? Bug in the mga driver? Conf error.... Procedure for the record for others: During the installation select manual partition. First!!! create a 4MB unused partition at the begining of sda (I understood that this is the size otherwise it won't work). After that create your own partitioning (mostly it will be the swap and ext3 for the /) After base installation, reboot On the OF prompt o > boot cdrom:\vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 NOTE: "cdrom:\vmlinuz" is the http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/vmlinuz-2.4.25-powerpc-chrp-rs6k.initrd burned on a CD ISO9660 format. and "root=/dev/sda2" is presumed your / partition that you created just before. When the installation finish and you reboot again. At the SMS level: Choose the disk you want to boot. Go to OF prompt (F8) o > printenv boot-device Check the output o > setenv boot-device <previous output>:1 BTW: I found that the disk I use has an alias named "disk". To check that run o > devalias o > setenv boot-file root=/dev/sda2 NOTE: root=/dev/sda2 is presumed your / partition that you just created. You still have to boot from the cdrom With the new system up; run # cfdisk (BE CAREFULL). Change type of sda1 to PReP 0x41. # dd if=/boot/<your vmlinuz> of=/dev/sda1 Done. Cheers, Daniel __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com
