Dnia 21-02-2006, wto o godzinie 19:04 +0100, Brian Durant napisaĆ(a): > Hi again, > > I installed Debian (Etch) PPC (I think this is considered to be > "testing"). At the end of the install, I got the following message: > > "Yaboot didn't install. You will need to boot manually with the > /boot/vmlinux kernel on partition /dev/sda3 and root=/dev/sda3 passed on > as a kernel argument." > > Since an Ubuntu yaboot kicks in at startup, I pressed "L" and then at > the "boot" prompt, I wrote: > > "/boot/vmlinux /dev/sda3 root=/dev/sda3" > > This didn't work as I got the following error: > > "Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(0,0)" > > Soooo, what do I do to boot into the Debian system for the first time > and how do I resolve the yaboot issue permanently? > > Cheers, > > Brian > You should just modify your yaboot.conf so you can dual boot Ubuntu/Debian. Something like that
default=Ubuntu boot=/dev/hda2 device=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: root=/dev/hda6 timeout=100 install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot enablecdboot macosx=/dev/hda3 image=/boot/vmlinux label=Ubuntu read-only initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="quiet splash" root=/dev/hda6 partition=6 image=/boot/vmlinux label=Debian read-only initrd=/boot/initrd.img root=/dev/hda4 partition=4 Change, of course, disk/partition numbers, run ybin and voila, problem should be fixed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]