Re: yaboot failure B&W G3 Lenny

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

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: yaboot failure B&W G3 Lenny

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.

yaboot failure B&W G3 Lenny

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