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| 00:38.29 | dreamind | Hi |
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| 01:16.44 | techrolla | <techrolla> I am having a hard time getting debian 3.0r2 or yellowdog 3.01 to boot on my B&W powermac g3 |
| 01:16.45 | techrolla | <techrolla> It cd fails to boot after holding down "c" on boot |
| 01:16.45 | techrolla | <techrolla> and it won't boot from OF |
| 01:16.45 | techrolla | <techrolla> I can boot the vmlinux kernels from both cd's and get as far as needing the "init=" parameter to the kernel, and then whatever I try to pass for init fails to find an initial console |
| 01:16.45 | techrolla | <techrolla> But when I try to boot the yaboot on either cd's, It will load the ELF kernel, then tell me it can't claim malloc buffer |
| 01:16.47 | techrolla | <techrolla> and fail |
| 01:16.49 | techrolla | <techrolla> I forgot to say that I am doing the booting commands from yaboot on either cd it seems, as I get to a failed yaboot console when the cd tries to boot |
| 01:16.52 | techrolla | <techrolla> I do cd:,/install/powermac/vmlinux root=/dev/hda0 init=whateverhasn'tworked |
| 01:16.54 | techrolla | <techrolla> (For debian, which I know has a broken yaboot, but yellowdog doesn't but fails to work either) |
| 01:16.57 | techrolla | <techrolla> Any suggestions? Thanks |
| 01:21.40 | pahartik | techrolla: you need to figure out proper device for "root" |
| 01:24.42 | pahartik | techrolla: after that kernel will not complain about not being able to find "init" executable |
| 01:28.30 | techrolla | I think that /dev/hda0 is the proper device |
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| 01:30.07 | techrolla | because it says that it mounts the filesystem as read only |
| 01:30.24 | techrolla | or should I make the root device the cd? |
| 01:31.30 | pahartik | techrolla: "/dev/hda0" should not even exist... partitions start from "/dev/hda1" and "/dev/hda" refers to whole disk |
| 01:32.18 | techrolla | Hey, I am getting mixed up with grub again :) |
| 01:32.23 | techrolla | right? |
| 01:32.35 | pahartik | techrolla: you have no installed Debian or YellowDog yet, right? |
| 01:32.39 | techrolla | right |
| 01:32.42 | techrolla | I have mac os x |
| 01:32.46 | techrolla | 10.1, which really sucks |
| 01:32.57 | techrolla | I have installed debian before, but never on a mac |
| 01:33.15 | techrolla | I can't get to any console or anything, and the cd fails to boot any further than a failed yaboot message |
| 01:33.36 | techrolla | I've heard that debian has a badly build yaboot, but the same goes for yellowdog |
| 01:33.52 | techrolla | Actually, I take that back |
| 01:34.02 | techrolla | I do get to a console, but it's the yaboot one |
| 01:34.10 | techrolla | where I can then try booting like I did above |
| 01:38.01 | techrolla | I should try the /dev/hda1 |
| 01:38.16 | pahartik | techrolla: no... |
| 01:39.37 | pahartik | techrolla: you can get to OpenFirmware and load "yaboot" from CD? |
| 01:39.42 | techrolla | In OF |
| 01:39.47 | techrolla | Nothing will boot |
| 01:39.50 | techrolla | I get error messages |
| 01:39.55 | techrolla | saying bad size |
| 01:39.57 | techrolla | and whatnot |
| 01:40.17 | techrolla | although it does say ELF kernel loaded... if I can remember correclty |
| 01:41.06 | pahartik | techrolla: "boot cd:,install\powermac\yaboot" does not work? |
| 01:41.21 | techrolla | let me try really quick and tell you exactly what I get |
| 01:42.07 | techrolla | Oh |
| 01:42.09 | techrolla | I remember now |
| 01:42.12 | techrolla | \'s |
| 01:42.17 | techrolla | do not show correctly in my OF |
| 01:42.28 | techrolla | all I see is a space when I hit "\" |
| 01:42.46 | techrolla | I'm guessing that's not a good thing...this isn't a standard mac keyboard |
| 01:43.56 | pahartik | techrolla: first try to find out if you can get that character from your keyboard... |
| 01:51.44 | pahartik | techrolla: when you booted from CD and got the kernel starting up... you got "yaboot" prompt before kernel started? |
| 01:52.23 | techrolla | Okay, thanks so much |
| 01:52.25 | pahartik | techrolla: what did you do at that prompt? |
| 01:52.33 | techrolla | I got it to boot to debian |
| 01:52.34 | techrolla | BUT |
| 01:52.59 | techrolla | only by using a standard mac usb keyboard that i have by coincidence |
| 01:52.59 | pahartik | techrolla: good... |
| 01:53.09 | techrolla | because I was sent 2 macs by accident |
| 01:53.19 | techrolla | but My problem is now that I can't boot it with my keyboard |
| 01:53.29 | techrolla | because it can't make the "\" and the standard mac one can |
| 01:53.56 | techrolla | The mac one had a stuck key or something, because the installer was freaking out like I had been holding down a button |
| 01:54.41 | pahartik | techrolla: you do not usually need to use "\" to boot up after installing |
| 01:55.39 | techrolla | I just can't go through the installation because there is a jammed key it seems |