Re: yaboot failure B&W G3 Lenny

2010-05-31 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi there, On 31 May, this message from Chris Reich echoed through cyberspace: > I've seen this before. The filesystem installed on the /boot partition > must be ext2 or ext3. You're mixing things up. If you use a /boot partition mounted to /boot under Linux, you might want to use ext2 or ext3.

Re: yaboot failure B&W G3 Lenny

2010-05-31 Thread David Duffy
On Mon, 31 May 2010, David Duffy wrote: Requesting a boot from CDROM, yaboot has read yaboot.conf, and the default install says /p...@8000/pci-bri...@d/pci9004,7...@3/@0:3,/boot/vmlinux: Unable to open file, Invalid device Further to this, the above matches the identifier I get from "de

Re: g5 install problem

2010-05-31 Thread Gary
did you install stable or testing? I've not encountered problems with stable on the G5 but testing is still a work in progress. as mentioned before, be sure to choose the 64-bit version. -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: yaboot failure B&W G3 Lenny

2010-05-31 Thread Chris Reich
I've seen this before. The filesystem installed on the /boot partition must be ext2 or ext3. All my best - Chris Reich; Rochester, New York --- On Mon, 5/31/10, David Duffy wrote: > From: David Duffy > Subject: yaboot failure B&W G3 Lenny > To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday,

Re: g5 install problem

2010-05-31 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Ron Brooks wrote: Hi, I joined this group hoping for a solution so here's the problem. I have a Powermac G5 1.6 single processor that I've tried many times to install Debian. The install goes fine...but on reboot up comes the black bootstrap screen which ask

yaboot failure B&W G3 Lenny

2010-05-31 Thread David Duffy
Hi. I have been racking my brains for some days trying to install Debian on a Blue & White G3 PowerMac. The primary hd is SCSI. Open Firmware 3.1.0 (Apple PowerMac1,1 1.0f5 BootROM built on 02/15/99). I was finally able to install from a netinstall CD (20100201-16:52) using (yaboot): boo

Re: g5 install problem

2010-05-31 Thread nello martuscielli
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Ron Brooks wrote: > Hi, I joined this group hoping for a solution so here's the problem. I > have a Powermac G5 1.6 single processor that I've tried many times to > install Debian. The install goes fine...but on reboot up comes the > black bootstrap screen which as

g5 install problem

2010-05-31 Thread Ron Brooks
Hi, I joined this group hoping for a solution so here's the problem. I have a Powermac G5 1.6 single processor that I've tried many times to install Debian. The install goes fine...but on reboot up comes the black bootstrap screen which asks if I want to boot from the hd or cd. I choose hd but it j