On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 04:31:32PM +0000, Michael Rex wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install Debian on a Motorola PowerStack. A quite > challenging task so far. The machine doesn't have a CD-ROM, nor do I > have a keyboard for it. So I'm stuck with doing a netinstall using the > serial console. > > Accessing the PowerStack via serial console works, I have a DHCP server > set up to provide the kernel image to boot the PS from. I didn't find > much documentation on that topic, but what I found says that I have to > use yaboot. Well, the PS fetches yaboot from the server, fetches the > yaboot.conf and then tries to load the kernel. And that's where it > stops. >
If i remember well, the powerstack is a prep machine, and thus doesn't run yaboot. Just netboot the powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-prep.initrd file, and you should be dropped directly in the debian-installer. If this doesn't work, fill a bug report against debian-installer. If it works, please go to /root, and fill an installation report from the template found there. Friendly, Sven Luther
