Re: Linux Install booter problems

2003-01-25 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:05:24PM -0600, John Steven Sobtzak wrote: > >You must be using the potato installer? The woody installer's > >kernel file is named linux.bin, and uses Penguin-19. > >With only 12MB of memory, you're better off using potato > >anyway. that might not be enough for woody. >

Re: Linux Install booter problems

2003-01-24 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:52:38PM -0600, John Steven Sobtzak wrote: > To my best knowledge I do have a 5380 SCSI controller in the machine, > based on my research. I've attached the dumps that the Penguin booter > "Hardware" menu gives me telling what hardware and address ranges it > detects,

Re: Linux Install booter problems

2003-01-24 Thread John Steven Sobtzak
Oops, I think I forgot the file. Just in case JSS --On Friday, January 24, 2003 4:48 PM -0800 Brad Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 05:10:25PM -0600, John Steven Sobtzak wrote: Dear Debian: I am having troubles starting the Penguin-18 bootstrap installer on my Powe

Re: Linux Install booter problems

2003-01-24 Thread John Steven Sobtzak
You must be using the potato installer? The woody installer's kernel file is named linux.bin, and uses Penguin-19. With only 12MB of memory, you're better off using potato anyway. that might not be enough for woody. Correct, I am using the potato version due to HD space limits (I'm not looking fo

Re: Linux Install booter problems

2003-01-24 Thread John Steven Sobtzak
This error would appear to be the kernel trying to read from an address that doesn't have anything. The address in question is 0x50f08000, which is in the block reserved from I/O devices. This particular address would normally be the NCR5380 SCSI controller registers, but I don't know if your mach

Re: Linux Install booter problems

2003-01-24 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 05:10:25PM -0600, John Steven Sobtzak wrote: > Dear Debian: > I am having troubles starting the Penguin-18 bootstrap installer on my > PowerBook 520. I start the Penguin booter, set the setting to point to the > 'linux' kernel and 'root.bin' ram disk file, set 'root=/de

Re: Linux Install booter problems

2003-01-24 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 05:10:25PM -0600, John Steven Sobtzak wrote: > Dear Debian: > I am having troubles starting the Penguin-18 bootstrap installer on my > PowerBook 520. I start the Penguin booter, set the setting to point to the > 'linux' kernel and 'root.bin' ram disk file, set 'root=/de

Linux Install booter problems

2003-01-24 Thread John Steven Sobtzak
Dear Debian: I am having troubles starting the Penguin-18 bootstrap installer on my PowerBook 520. I start the Penguin booter, set the setting to point to the 'linux' kernel and 'root.bin' ram disk file, set 'root=/dev/ram' in the command line, save these settings as defaults, choose 'Boot No