Brendan J Simon wrote: > I have just bought a powerbook and am seeing the same errors that you > saw. ie. "hda: lost interrupt". This must be a kernel issue as I am > using yaboot to boot the linuxppc cd. I have successfully installed > debian on a G4. I did this by putting appropriate kernels and ramdisk > images onto a zip disk and booting from it. I'm not sure if I can do > something similar with the powerbook. It doesn't have a zip disk or a > floppy drive, though I do have access to a usb floppy drive at work.
Have you tried "hda=noautotune" as a kernel argument? If you are booting from yaboot and not bootX, this may be necessary (or atleast a quick fix). HTH --Nelson Abramson -- "Apparently if you play the Windows NT CD backwards you hear satanic messages" "You think that's bad, if you play it forwards it installs Windows NT!" --orlando
