Re: Unable to boot Potato from Pismo HD

2001-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 04:50:48PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > boot hd:2,yaboot is the right syntax. But if there isn't a properly set-up > Apple_Bootstrap partition at partition 2, it won't work. And since potato's > Make Bootable step doesn't work for powerpc (as pointed out in the > installa

Re: Unable to boot Potato from Pismo HD

2001-11-11 Thread Colin Walters
Mark Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When booting from the Potato CD, everything works fine right through > the set-up, including the "make Debian bootable from HD" step. I > assume therefore, that the necessary boot files are getting written > to the bootstrap partition but I have no idea how

Re: Unable to boot Potato from Pismo HD

2001-11-11 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 02:21:46PM +0100, Mark Smith wrote: > Hi, > > Subject says it all. > > Hardware: Powerbook G3 (Pismo) 400/320 > > Software: Official Debian Potato CDs / MacOS X > > Have partitioned HD as per instructions: > > 800 KB Apple_Bootstrap partition at hda2 > > 320 MB Linux s

Re: Unable to boot Potato from Pismo HD

2001-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 02:21:46PM +0100, Mark Smith wrote: > Hi, > > Subject says it all. > > Hardware: Powerbook G3 (Pismo) 400/320 > > Software: Official Debian Potato CDs / MacOS X > > Have partitioned HD as per instructions: > > 800 KB Apple_Bootstrap partition at hda2 > > 320 MB Linux s

Unable to boot Potato from Pismo HD

2001-11-11 Thread Mark Smith
Hi, Subject says it all. Hardware: Powerbook G3 (Pismo) 400/320 Software: Official Debian Potato CDs / MacOS X Have partitioned HD as per instructions: 800 KB Apple_Bootstrap partition at hda2 320 MB Linux swap partition on hda 2.0 GB LInux partition on hda (also have an Apple partition ma