Rough summary:
I had to start on my internal hard drive, install a base system, mount my
firewire drive, go to runlevel 1 and copy the filesystem onto the new
drive, recreate mount points like /proc and /sys, and edit the new fstab.
Then, I create a new initrd image. I edit /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf
with the new root device (/dev/sda3 in my case), and add ieee1394 and
ohci1394 (in that order) to /etc/mkinitrd/modules. Do not worry, mkinitrd
will find sbp2 and sd_mod.
Here is the part that took me days to figure out: the system needs time to
"see" the firewire drive. On my Powerbook G4, it needed four seconds.
Here's how: add "/bin/sleep" to /etc/mkinitrd/exe and put a script in
/etc/mkinitrd/exe that has this command:
echo -e "sleep 4 \n" >> $INITRDDIR/loadmodules
(I tried two seconds first, and it was not long enough. YMMV)
use mkinitrd to create a new initrd (and edit yaboot.conf accordingly) or
enter the following command:
apt-get install --reinstall kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc
Now you need a good yaboot.conf. Here is my image section:
image=/boot/vmlinux
label=Linux
device=fw/node/sbp-2/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
root=/dev/sda3
partition=3
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
Note that I have only one Firewire drive, so I could use the short
notation. Otherwise, you may need to use the exact entry. You can find
this by using:
find /proc/device-tree/ -name [EMAIL PROTECTED] -printf %P | grep firewire
I think that is about all of it. Everything is straightforward, except
that "sleep 4" hack.
Hope this helps some people. I am one who does not have hard drive space
for two systems, and I usually use OS X on the road. Having Linux on the
external is wonderful.
Thanks,
Jonathan Bowman
> In the meantime, could you please post a summary of how you did it to
> the debian-powerpc list, so it will be in the archives? Thanks.
>
> --
> Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
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