Re: Got this far on a 7100/80

2003-01-15 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
Title: Re: Got this far on a 7100/80 Is something supposed to be located in /dev/ram?   I tried that and it still didn't work   Is that where my kernel is supposed to be located somehow?   does /dev/ram map to something equivalent on MAC like the RAMDISK or something?   (I edited lilo

Re: Got this far on a 7100/80

2003-01-15 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Philip Larkin Waters wrote: What is Woody? The current "stable" version of Debian? This is after all "debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org" ;-)

Re: Got this far on a 7100/80

2003-01-15 Thread Clive Menzies
Title: Re: Got this far on a 7100/80 At 9:06 am -0700 15/1/03, Philip Larkin Waters wrote: What is Woody? Woody is the current stable release of Debian (Version 3.0).  see http://www.debian.org/releases.  The previous version 2.0 is Potato. Testing is Sarge and Unstable is Sid.  All characters

Re: Got this far on a 7100/80

2003-01-15 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
Title: Re: Got this far on a 7100/80 What is Woody? At 5:05 pm -0700 14/1/03, Philip Larkin Waters wrote: So, I used the Mach Kernel and the Apple Bootloader and I actually got some results!   It was kinda cool... in any event I got the following error:   VFS

Re: Got this far on a 7100/80

2003-01-15 Thread Clive Menzies
Title: Re: Got this far on a 7100/80 At 5:05 pm -0700 14/1/03, Philip Larkin Waters wrote: So, I used the Mach Kernel and the Apple Bootloader and I actually got some results!   It was kinda cool... in any event I got the following error:   VFS Cannot open root device sdb5 or 08:15 Please appand

Re: Got this far on a 7100/80

2003-01-14 Thread dylan
oops sent that to the wrong person! there are 2 steps: first boot the machine with the kernel_installer (found here: ftp://ppc.linux.or.jp//pub/users/ekato/nubus-pmac/Debian_woody/) install the debian system, and reboot. then move that kernel+installer to a safe location, and replace it with th

Re: Got this far on a 7100/80

2003-01-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 05:05:38PM -0700, Philip Larkin Waters wrote: > So, I used the Mach Kernel and the Apple Bootloader and I actually got some > results! > > It was kinda cool... > in any event I got the following error: > > VFS Cannot open root device sdb5 or 08:15 > Please appand a correc

Got this far on a 7100/80

2003-01-14 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
So, I used the Mach Kernel and the Apple Bootloader and I actually got some results!   It was kinda cool... in any event I got the following error:   VFS Cannot open root device sdb5 or 08:15 Please appand a correct "root=" boot option   kernel panic VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:15