Re: Potato won't chroot on Etch

Hi, On 8 Dec, this message from john fisher echoed through cyberspace: > PowerPC G5 dual proc > running 2.6.12-1-powerpc-smp > with Etch testing install > > trying to run a potato chroot enviro. > > I have to run as root inside the chroot ( security not at issue) >

Potato won't chroot on Etch

PowerPC G5 dual proc running 2.6.12-1-powerpc-smp with Etch testing install trying to run a potato chroot enviro. I have to run as root inside the chroot ( security not at issue) potato's bash ( & etc) won't run ( seg fault) some potato utilities do run, however. tried: kernel

Closing this bug, since i doubt the submitters cares, and it is woody or potato boot-floppies related anyway.

Hello, I am closing this bug report. The submitter did not reply to my call for further information, and this is something affecting the potato or woody boot-floppies and 2.2 kernels anyway. I asked for feedback on this one on october 6, more than two month ago, and got no replies except spams

yaboot trouble on CHRP (was: potato chrp ISO?)

On Wednesday 11 June 2003 00:00, Jens Kutilek wrote: > Am Dienstag, 10.06.03, um 20:11 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Krisztian > Mark Szentes: > > Solution: I had to resize the first partition (41 prep boot) to > > EXACTLY 4 > > Megabytes. I had 32 Mb because I always used a boot partition which >

Re: potato chrp ISO?

Am Dienstag, 10.06.03, um 20:11 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Krisztian Mark Szentes: Solution: I had to resize the first partition (41 prep boot) to EXACTLY 4 Megabytes. I had 32 Mb because I always used a boot partition which accomodated several kernel images and I thought is should be at leas

Re: yaboot trouble on CHRP (was: potato chrp ISO?)

Am Dienstag, 10.06.03, um 21:32 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Krisztian Mark Szentes: {... booting trouble on an RS/6000 B50...} With the correctly sized /dev/sda1 of 4 Megabytes and yaboot (written by mkofboot) it gives: boot: failsafe Please wait, loading kernel... Elf32 kernel loaded..

yaboot trouble on CHRP (was: potato chrp ISO?)

{... booting trouble on an RS/6000 B50...} Well, as I told, the boot partition had to be sized EXACTLY 4 Mb. Otherwise, 0 > boot scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED] root=/dev/sda4 console=ttyS0 chrpboot video=keep hangs with code E140 which means "Unresolved problems" within PReP style load, where not eve

Re: potato chrp ISO?

On Monday 09 June 2003 17:11, Jens Kutilek wrote: > > Von: Krisztian Mark Szentes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Friday 06 June 2003 16:24, Jens Kutilek wrote: > >> You could try the installation instructions I have written on > >> . > > ... > > > The kernel h

Re: potato chrp ISO?

Von: Krisztian Mark Szentes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Datum: Sa, 7. Jun 2003 10:13:41 Europe/Berlin Betreff: Re: potato chrp ISO? On Friday 06 June 2003 16:24, Jens Kutilek wrote: You could try the installation instructions I have written on <http://www.kutilek.de/technik/de

Re: potato chrp ISO?

On Friday 06 June 2003 16:24, Jens Kutilek wrote: > You could try the installation instructions I have written on > . > > You have to replace the kernel on the rescue disk with the one provided > on that page. Thanks, the instructions are great. Correc

Re: potato chrp ISO?

Hi, Am Freitag, 06.06.03, um 14:09 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Krisztian Mark Szentes: Is there a potato netinst CD ISO mirror (or something like) around? Or has someone a newer chrp kernel image ready for woody? Or can I jigdo the pieces together? You could try the installation

Re: B50 woes (was: potato chrp ISO?)

Krisztian Mark Szentes said: > I try to use the rescue image: > > 0 > boot floppy:\linux.bin load_ramdisk=1 root=/dev/ram video=keep > chrpboot starting: loaded at 0x40 > avail_ram = 4e5000 > gunzipping (0x1 <- 0x415cb8:0x4e3194)...done > 1934704 > bytes > start address =

Re: B50 woes (was: potato chrp ISO?)

hi thanks for helping! It's still very strange... :-( On Friday 06 June 2003 14:41, you wrote: > Add console=ttyS0 to the kernel command line. At the very beginning, the LCD showed E105 and then blanked off. now, as long as I did not switch off the machine, it did like this: 0 > boot floppy:\li

Re: B50 woes (was: potato chrp ISO?)

On Friday 06 June 2003 14:41, you wrote: > On Jun 06, Krisztian Mark Szentes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >the LCD blanks out and nothing happens any more. Not even the reset > > button reboots the B50. > >I access the machine over the serial console as there is no video card > >installed. I gu

B50 woes (was: potato chrp ISO?)

Hi again, On Friday 06 June 2003 14:09, I wrote: > I am trying to install Debian on a B50 which seems to be a CHRP machine > (I am quite sure by now). All woody install kernels fail on it like: > Is there a potato netinst CD ISO mirror (or something like) around? Or > has someone

potato chrp ISO?

003030 ok The potato chrp kernel seems to boot but I need the full install environment, i.e. I need the potato chrp floppy images. Is there a potato netinst CD ISO mirror (or something like) around? Or has someone a newer chrp kernel image ready for woody? Or can I jigdo the pieces together? Thx

Re: ibook2 rev2 potato cd boot problems..

ke the ibook2 you would be much better off with woody, which provides a new-powermac flavor. But first, just try adding video=ofonly to your boot parameters (below). > Wrong partition 1 signature > config file read, 613 bytes > Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC (potato) > boot: ( I press enter

Re: ibook2 rev2 potato cd boot problems..

iel] > .. Now the screen turns white with black text -- open firmware > There are a few things like video card found, etc. > then simply: > booting... > and it locks. I've let it sit for 1/2 hour and no luck. Tried typing 'debian video=ofonly' at the boot: prompt? A potat

ibook2 rev2 potato cd boot problems..

I'll just reinstall completely with Debian, never used OS X anyway. So I put in my ppc deb cd and here's what I get: Welcome to yaboot version 0.9 Wrong partition 1 signature config file read, 613 bytes Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC (potato) boot: ( I press enter ) Loading kernel... Wrong p

Kernel with Debian Potato installer

Title: Kernel with Debian Potato installer Hi I found your site http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/ very useful in trying to install woody on a Mac 8100/80 (Nubus) and used the Apple MkLinux Booter. However, the Kernel with Potato Installer doesn't boot on my machine; it fails to find /de

Re: apt-get issues on potato

On Jul 12 2002, Adam wrote: > i have been getting a lot of corupted files.. don't know why. If you are doing everything correctly, these can be signs of bad RAM. Perhaps you could stress test your machine? []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: apt-get issues on potato

On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 04:12:18AM -0400, Adam wrote: > yes, you are right.. some how all this time the file has been getting > corupted this is what i got and it continues to happen.. i just deleted > the whole plum entry > Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-all/[EMAIL PROTE

Re: apt-get issues on potato

TED]> Architecture: all Version: 2.33.1-2.1 Depends: perl5 | perl Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-all/n^@t/plum_^@[EMAIL PROTECTED] S^@ze: 124648 MD5sum: 8a0def1eaf3a28baab7b03d2d212126a Description: IRC proxy, stationing, logging, and bot program (pirc). plum works as personal proxy, stat

Re: apt-get issues on potato

nternal hard drives. > > I have installed most of potato I want to use on this install. (This > install is the 4th or 5th one each resulting in the same type of > errors.) > > After selecting the packages I want to install.. I get this error > > apt-get install > R

apt-get issues on potato

This is my 3rd box to install Debian on and each one had their own particular issues.  This box is my oldest.  I think it is revision 1 of the b/w G3 if not that then it is rev 2.  It is a 350mz with 650mb of ram and 2 internal hard drives. I have installed most of potato I want to use on

Re: Potato cd access problems

On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 03:11, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 04:39:45PM -0400, Colin Foran wrote: > > Well ive been at this most of the day, still no dice. I've made another > > copy of > > the first Debian cd and tried to restart the base install. While I do get > > fewer > > erro

Re: Potato cd access problems

> > Another idea along the same lines, trying to avoid the CD. I assume > the downloaded iso file is on one of your mac partitions? I'd like to, but the iso images are on my RedHat box. This mac is just a fix up project, so its only got the 1.2 gb hard drive in it. If I can, im going to try to ge

Re: Potato cd access problems

partition to /dev/hda10 5. Quit the installer, boot your regular system and mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda10 /cdrom -- *--v- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 v--* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato):

Re: Potato cd access problems

Well ive been at this most of the day, still no dice. I've made another copy of the first Debian cd and tried to restart the base install. While I do get fewer errors, I still cant complete the process. I have tried to copy the iso to hard disk, but that gets cut off even sooner than using the inst

Re: Potato cd access problems

On Jul 08 2002, Colin Foran wrote: > > Anyway, if you want to check what the problem may be, you > > might like to generate an image of the CD on disk, mount that > > image and then try to install from there. > > I tried it, but i got both a SCSI cd error, and a cd i/o erro

Re: Potato cd access problems

      Anyway, if you want to check what the problem may be, you     might like to generate an image of the CD on disk, mount that     image and then try to install from there.       I tried it, but i got both a SCSI cd error, and a cd i/o error.  Could this be both a bad cd and a bad

Re: Potato cd access problems

On Jul 08 2002, Colin Foran wrote: > But how would the base system have been installed without a hitch? I've seen problems like this before, with a bad disk, which looked perfect to naked eye. Anyway, if you want to check what the problem may be, you might like to

Re: Potato cd access problems

Sadly, no. No net access yet. Hope to have it set up quickly though. I had thought of a screwy scsi driver, as both the cdrom and disk seem fine. But how would the base system have been installed without a hitch? A new kernel may be the way to go, but one of the packages that wasnt installed comple

Re: Potato cd access problems

Colin Foran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey guys. I've finally got potato running on my 9500, but i'm having > trouble getting much farther than the base system. Whenever I try to > install any packages from the installer, i get nothing but a long > stream of cd

Potato cd access problems

Hey guys. I've finally got potato running on my 9500, but i'm having trouble getting much farther than the base system. Whenever I try to install any packages from the installer, i get nothing but a long stream of cd I/O errors. I ran df and it looks like the system is only occupying

Re: potato or woody on emac?

On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 02:26:46PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello; > > anyone install potato or woody on an emac? > > i am consider purchasing an emac for my daughter. > currently, she uses a dell laptop/notebook with > mandrake-linux 8.2 installed. > Not me.

Re: potato or woody on emac?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > hello; > > anyone install potato or woody on an emac? I'm just waiting for the interesting confusion on comp.editors.emacs when apple users start writing in for help... jas. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

potato or woody on emac?

hello; anyone install potato or woody on an emac? i am consider purchasing an emac for my daughter. currently, she uses a dell laptop/notebook with mandrake-linux 8.2 installed. -- Terry L. Ridder ><> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Fwd: Re: Mounting floppy (or not) - Debian 2.2r5 for ppp (potato)

> >Possible. Try a more recent kernel image unless your machine is a Nubus > >pmac. > > > > Michael > It is a NuBus Mac - so I think I'm going to do without a floppy for > the time being - I can use an external Jaz (SCSI) drive. As I learn > more I may be able to figure out the problem. Wit

Re: Fwd: Re: Mounting floppy (or not) - Debian 2.2r5 for ppp (potato)

> So I gather from Derrik but the probability is that I've got a SWIM III floppy drive but still can't access it using either Debian or > MkLinux. Possible. Try a more recent kernel image unless your machine is a Nubus pmac. Michael It is a NuBus Mac - so I think I'm going to do wit

Re: Fwd: Re: Mounting floppy (or not) - Debian 2.2r5 for ppp (potato)

> I've searched for the 8100/80 spec on the net and every source > indicates that the 8100/80 shipped with a SWIM III floppy - no > mention of SWIM II. Is there another possible explanation? SWIM II was never supported by any flavor of Linux. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Fwd: Re: Mounting floppy (or not) - Debian 2.2r5 for ppp (potato)

Hi Derrik I've searched for the 8100/80 spec on the net and every source indicates that the 8100/80 shipped with a SWIM III floppy - no mention of SWIM II. Is there another possible explanation? Thanks Clive At 11:49 am -0600 8/4/02, Derrik Pates wrote: On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 06:24:54PM

Fwd: Re: Mounting floppy (or not) - Debian 2.2r5 for ppp (potato)

ct: Re: Mounting floppy (or not) - Debian 2.2r5 for ppp (potato) Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, Maggie Bcc: X-Attachments: On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 09:31:02PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > >Which Mac model are you running Linux on? If, as you claim, you're using > >the stock

Re: Mounting floppy (or not) - Debian 2.2r5 for ppp (potato)

On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 09:31:02PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: >Which Mac model are you running Linux on? If, as you claim, you're using >the stock kernel image from nubus-pmac.sf.net, that would seem to >indicate its floppy controller is something other than the SWIM3. Mac PowerPC 8100/80

Re: Mounting floppy (or not) - Debian 2.2r5 for ppp (potato)

On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 08:55:07PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: >This means one of two things: > - If you built a custom kernel, you may have not built the SWIM3 >floppy controller driver into the kernel. > - The system you're running Linux on may have a SWIM2 floppy >controller (wh

Re: Mounting floppy (or not) - Debian 2.2r5 for ppp (potato)

On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 06:13:33PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: I'm using Debian 2.2.r5 (Kernel 2.4.4) loaded from a CD set that was burnt in January 2002 which should be up to date and stable. I used the installation screens to load it. That should not make a difference. This is a kernel-le

Re: Mounting floppy (or not) - Debian 2.2r5 for ppp (potato)

Hi Derrik I'm using Debian 2.2.r5 (Kernel 2.4.4) loaded from a CD set that was burnt in January 2002 which should be up to date and stable. I used the installation screens to load it. ls -l /dev gives lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Mar 22 12:06 fd -> /proc/self/fd brw-rw 1 root floppy 2, 0

Re: Mounting floppy (or not) - Debian 2.2r5 for ppp (potato)

On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 11:24:14AM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > After installing the MkLinux version of MAKEDEV it didn't seem to > run. So I installed MkLinux on another partition to check the floppy > major and minor numbers. fd0 is also major 2 and minor 0 on MkLinux. > I shall try "info m

Re: Mounting floppy (or not) - Debian 2.2r5 for ppp (potato)

Hi Brian After installing the MkLinux version of MAKEDEV it didn't seem to run. So I installed MkLinux on another partition to check the floppy major and minor numbers. fd0 is also major 2 and minor 0 on MkLinux. I shall try "info mknod" to see if it sheds any light but I'm still confused.

Re: Mounting floppy (or not) - Debian 2.2r5 for ppc (potato)

Thanks Brian It appears that floppy support was a bit of an afterthought on MkLinux (something to do with Apple's aversion to floppy drives for the iMac perhaps?). However, there is MAKEDEV-2.5.1.noarch.rpm on the MkLinux CD and luckily I spotted "alien" during my last Debian install and sel

Re: Mounting floppy (or not) - Debian 2.2r5 for ppp (potato)

On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Clive Menzies wrote: > > I've loaded Debian 2.2.r5 (Kernel 2.4.4) on to a Mac 8100/80, which is a > nubus Mac, by using the MkLinux mach_kernel from http://nubus-pmac.sf.net/. > > So far so good but I've hit a problem mounting floppies. Mounting > CD's is fine but "mount /flo

Re: Mounting floppy (or not) - Debian 2.2r5 for ppp (potato)

On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Clive Menzies wrote: > I've loaded Debian 2.2.r5 (Kernel 2.4.4) on to a Mac 8100/80, which is a > nubus Mac, by using the MkLinux mach_kernel from http://nubus-pmac.sf.net/. > > So far so good but I've hit a problem mounting floppies. Mounting > CD's is fine but "mount /flopp

Mounting floppy (or not) - Debian 2.2r5 for ppp (potato)

Hi I've loaded Debian 2.2.r5 (Kernel 2.4.4) on to a Mac 8100/80, which is a nubus Mac, by using the MkLinux mach_kernel from http://nubus-pmac.sf.net/. So far so good but I've hit a problem mounting floppies. Mounting CD's is fine but "mount /floppy" gives "/dev/fd0 has wrong major or minor n

Re: Re : Ovnibus news and debian potato ppc

On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 13:40, Renato Barrios wrote: > > >De : Elizabeth Barham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > "Renato Barrios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Specially removing potato from ftp sites or from distribution. > > >

Re : Ovnibus news and debian potato ppc

-- >De : Elizabeth Barham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >À : "Renato Barrios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Objet : Re: Re : Ovnibus news and debian potato ppc >Date : Lun 18 mars 2002 12:35 > > "Renato Barrios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes

Re: Ovnibus news and debian potato ppc

On Mar 18 2002, Renato Barrios wrote: > At present I thing potato ppc was not ready to be distributed and > used. That's all. First of all, potato is old and doesn't support newer hardware. But with woody things in the ppc camp came to be as they should

Re: Re : Re : Ovnibus news and debian potato ppc

On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 12:15, Renato Barrios wrote: > At present I thing potato ppc was not ready to be distributed and used. Sure, it doesn't fit your needs so it can't possibly fit anyone else's... -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) develop

Re: Re : Re : Ovnibus news and debian potato ppc

>De : Martin WHEELER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >À : Renato Barrios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Objet : Re : Ovnibus news and debian potato ppc >Date : Lun 18 mars 2002 11:26 > > Renato __ > > The Debian project is a self-help community. > > This means that everyone

Re: Potato on the Motorola MCP750

osted Eric's image on my website. I plan to put up a 2.4.x image there as well, as soon as I figure out how to make a bootfull.bin image for PReP. http://homepage.interaccess.com/~rknize/russ/linux/projects.html Russ Russ W. Knize wrote: Hello, I have been trying for some time now to get

Potato on the Motorola MCP750

Hello, I have been trying for some time now to get potato to boot on a MCPx750 board. It appears that the interrupt map is broken in the 2.2.19 kernel because both the IDE controller and the serial port are losing interrupts. I saw a mention of an IDE patch available, but I'm not sure that

Re: unable to boot potato cd on ibook2

On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 22:11, Chris Tillman wrote: > You're going to uncomment the Makefile for the next release? Already done. > > This would be a good idea. Can anyone think of a good way to implement > > it? We could traverse the partition table and look for file systems > > that are Apple_H

Re: unable to boot potato cd on ibook2

w can we tell whether they're > MacOS or MacOS X? And how can we tell which ones are bootable? (I don't > have MacOS, so I can't try this.) It's a nice idea, but I feel feature creep coming on. -- *--v- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 ----v--* |

Re: unable to boot potato cd on ibook2

install X (kind of annoying when it defaults to an X > windows boot via gdm :-) I submitted 116609 on this, but I don't think the maintainer has done anything on it yet. Might help if you weighed in. -- *--v- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 v--* | <http://w

Re: unable to boot potato cd on ibook2

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 05:59:29AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 01:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So far the only complaints were the lack of a chance to tell yaboot to > > also boot Mac OS X, > > This would be a good idea. Can anyone think of a good way to implement > i

Re: unable to boot potato cd on ibook2

On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 01:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just finished using this to get woody up and running on my ibook2. > worked great. It even got X running properly (which Yellow Dog didn't > without some tweaking). I used fbdev, btw. Wonderful! This is good to hear. I hope you don't mi

Re: unable to boot potato cd on ibook2

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 08:04:19PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > The ibook2 will be very unhappy with potato's kernel. We are > developing an installer for newer powermacs such as this. If you'd > like to try it out, > > http://penguinppc.org/~walters/debian/installer/new-powermac > > Also Br

Re: unable to boot potato cd on ibook2

> The ibook2 will be very unhappy with potato's kernel. We are > developing an installer for newer powermacs such as this. If you'd > like to try it out, many thanks. i'll give it a shot -jamie

Re: unable to boot potato cd on ibook2

e iso's from diffrent > sites and i still get the same error. > > booting i get this > > Welcome to yaboot version 0.9 > Wrong partition 1 signature > Config file read, 528 bytes > Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC (potato) > boot: debian video=ofonly > Loading kernel... &g

Re: unable to boot potato cd on ibook2

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 05:22:09PM -0500, Jamie Oulman wrote: > hello all. > > after searching the list archives and not finding anything > i turn to this list. > > im having trouble booting a stable 2.2_rev4 binary1 cd on > a 600mhz ibook2. ive tried multiple iso's from diffrent > sites

unable to boot potato cd on ibook2

aboot version 0.9 Wrong partition 1 signature Config file read, 528 bytes Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC (potato) boot: debian video=ofonly Loading kernel... Wrong partition 1 signature Image not found try again WARNING ! default_close called ! boot: everything on the cd checks out. any idea's

Re: Please rebuild samba 2.0.7-4 for potato

On Sun, 2001-12-30 at 21:53, Steve Langasek wrote: > Samba 2.0.7-4 has just been uploaded to potato-proposed-updates in the > hope that 2.2r5 will release with a working package on architectures > (the current package is broken on Alphas). Binaries have already been > uploaded

Please rebuild samba 2.0.7-4 for potato

Hello, Samba 2.0.7-4 has just been uploaded to potato-proposed-updates in the hope that 2.2r5 will release with a working package on architectures (the current package is broken on Alphas). Binaries have already been uploaded for i386 and alpha; it would be appreciated if porters for the other

pb1400cs XF86Config potato->woody

Hi all. I've recently installed potato on this powerbook 1400, using the nubus 2.4.1 kernel + installer. X worked fine out of the box on this model. There was general conflict raging between dselect, apt and tasksel and the potato disks. When I upgraded to woody yesterday a number of pac

Re: Potato 2.2_rev4 cd iso not bootable?

Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That sounds really good. It's a pity the server wants a username and > password. Oops. I think they probably did that because I posted a direct link to the master site. My bad. If you want to download the image, it is definitely better to use the

Re: Potato 2.2_rev4 cd iso not bootable?

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:27:29AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:05:20PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cd-images/2.2_rev4.1/powerpc/ > That sounds really good. It's a pity the server wants a username and > password. > Are there any openl

Re: Potato 2.2_rev4 cd iso not bootable?

Florian Friesdorf wrote: Are there any openly available 4.1 images? ftp://ftp.gigabell.net/pub/debian-images/2.2_rev4.1/powerpc/ should work -Arnold Schwaighofer CS Student Austria Linz

Re: Potato 2.2_rev4 cd iso not bootable?

that the rev4 iso doesn t boot on ( tried on g4 titanium, > > g4/466 and g4/800) new world machines i get the following message: > > I happened to see yesterday that there is a potato r4.1 just for > PowerPC at > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cd-images/2.2_rev4.1/powerpc/ >

Re: Potato 2.2_rev4 cd iso not bootable?

Thanks to you for leading me in the right directions. I think i'll go with booting from OpenFirmware. As far as i unterstood i have to format a Volume HFS (HFS++ wont work right?) and second partion thats free and stick all the files on that hfs volume( linux, yaboot, etc) Configure yaboot.co

Re: Potato 2.2_rev4 cd iso not bootable?

rld machines i get the following message: I happened to see yesterday that there is a potato r4.1 just for PowerPC at http://cdimage.debian.org/cd-images/2.2_rev4.1/powerpc/ Perhaps the debian-cd folks have fixed the booting problems that r4 had? Anyways, I would just netboot your machi

Re: Potato 2.2_rev4 cd iso not bootable?

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, skatefraggle wrote: > Should I download rev3 iso image or try something different. I read > something like downloading the latest woody. > But how would you burn a bootable Woody cd? Yes, the rev 4 Potato PPC ISO is broken. The rev 3 ISO, on the other hand, is boo

Potato 2.2_rev4 cd iso not bootable?

version 0.9 Wrong partion 1 signature config files read 528 bytes Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC(Potato) boot: NULL Loading kernel... Wrong partion 1 signature Image not found ...try again Wrong partion 1 signature WARNING: default_close called Should I download rev3 iso image or try something different. I

Re: new ibook - potato 2.2r4 - image not found

On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 06:27:46AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > Hello all, > > I tried to install linux on my new ibook. But I got an error message: > ' > Welcome to yaboot version 0.9 > Wrong partition 1 signature > Config file read, 528 bytes > Debian GNU/

Re: QUIESCE + MacOS still hangs (was Re: new ibook - potato 2.2r4 - image not found)

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:47:17AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > I'm trying to start the debian installer (woody - 3.0.16). > Therefore I'm using the following yaboot.conf > > device=enet: > partition=0 you actually don't need partition= on network boots anymore, but it causes no harm, yaboot

Re: Unable to boot Potato from Pismo HD

owerpc (as pointed out in the > installation manual, and even in the step itself ISTR) as Ethan said, then > you will need to understand the bootloader to make it work. Check > out its pointed out in the fm yes, but the current potato boot-floppies still silently and happly act like they are doing s

Re: QUIESCE + MacOS still hangs (was Re: new ibook - potato 2.2r4 - image not found)

On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 05:16:56PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 01:05:08PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > > Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > yaboot.conf (on my server): > > > --- > > > device=enet: > > > partition=0 > > > timeout=50 > > > init-message=

Re: QUIESCE + MacOS still hangs (was Re: new ibook - potato 2.2r4 - image not found)

em hangs in the end with a nearly > > > finished progress bar. > > > > It's really starting to sound like a hardware problem. I'd call Apple, > they'll replace it if it's faulty. I cannot believe, that the system hardware is damaged, as I have been a

Re: QUIESCE + MacOS still hangs (was Re: new ibook - potato 2.2r4 - image not found)

On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 01:05:08PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > yaboot.conf (on my server): > > --- > > device=enet: > > partition=0 > > timeout=50 > > init-message="Debian GNU/Linux Network boot" > > default=linux > > append="video=ofonly" > >

Re: QUIESCE + MacOS still hangs (was Re: new ibook - potato 2.2r4 - image not found)

On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 06:15:40PM +0100, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 05:55:26PM +0100, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 06:27:46AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > > > > > Another strange thing is, that after Installing MacOS X I cannot boot > > > anyth

Re: Unable to boot Potato from Pismo HD

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

Re: QUIESCE + MacOS still hangs (was Re: new ibook - potato 2.2r4 - image not found)

Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > yaboot.conf (on my server): > --- > device=enet: > partition=0 > timeout=50 > init-message="Debian GNU/Linux Network boot" > default=linux > append="video=ofonly" > read-only > > image=linux > label=linux > root=image-1.44/root.bin This is w

Re: QUIESCE + MacOS still hangs (was Re: new ibook - potato 2.2r4 - image not found)

On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 05:55:26PM +0100, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 06:27:46AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > > > Another strange thing is, that after Installing MacOS X I cannot boot > > anything. MacOS 9 and MacOS X, and also their install CDs hang during > > boot pha

QUIESCE + MacOS still hangs (was Re: new ibook - potato 2.2r4 - image not found)

On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 06:27:46AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > Hello all, > > I tried to install linux on my new ibook. But I got an error message: > ' > Welcome to yaboot version 0.9 > Wrong partition 1 signature > Config file read, 528 bytes > Debian GNU/

Re: Unable to boot Potato from Pismo HD

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 pa

Re: Unable to boot Potato from Pismo HD

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 pa

Unable to boot Potato from Pismo HD

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

Re: new ibook - potato 2.2r4 - image not found

On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 07:09:41PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 06:05:48PM +0100, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > > > > That's exactly what I did. > > MacOS 9.2 from the Installation CD starts to boot. > > In the beginning the mouse is working. > > After 4 symbols (2 arrows, a q

Re: new ibook - potato 2.2r4 - image not found

On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 06:05:48PM +0100, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > > That's exactly what I did. > MacOS 9.2 from the Installation CD starts to boot. > In the beginning the mouse is working. > After 4 symbols (2 arrows, a question mark, a N, and i think the > quicktime logo) appeared in the lower

Re: new ibook - potato 2.2r4 - image not found

On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 04:17:22AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 06:12:59PM +0100, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > > After reading penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/doc/ and your mail, I think > > OSX is guilty. Before all this started, I created 3 HFS+ partitions (I > > know that w

Re: Fwd: Re: new ibook - potato 2.2r4 - image not found

On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 04:27:12PM -0800, Gordon Paynter wrote: > On Thursday 08 November 2001 21:27, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > > I tried to install linux on my new ibook. But I got an error message: > > ' > > Welcome to yaboot version 0.9 > > Wrong partition 1 signature > > [etc etc etc] > >

Re: new ibook - potato 2.2r4 - image not found

On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 06:12:59PM +0100, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > After reading penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/doc/ and your mail, I think > OSX is guilty. Before all this started, I created 3 HFS+ partitions (I > know that was wrong) and OSX made something not so funny of it. > Now all the MacO

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