On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:53:35PM +0100, Eric Deveaud wrote: > 4) get the SystemDisk tool from apple > <URL:ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/macosxserver/utilities/> > with this one note the number of the partition or the shared > partition eg: XX
i don't understand why you need this utility?
> DON'T do "disk bootable" instead go to the console, copy the
> linux-kernel-2.2.18 to your /boot partition, name it vmlinux-2.2.18
there is another step, relink /target/vmlinux to boot/vmlinux-2.2.18,
then run:
mkofboot -b /dev/hdaNN -m /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot --root /dev/hdaYY
where /dev/hdaNN is your Apple_Bootstrap partition, and /dev/hdaYY is
your root partition. this will install a working bootstrap on your
bootstrap partition making the disk immediatly bootable. after you
boot into debian you still need to write your own /etc/yaboot.conf and
rerun ybin.
> 8) reboot the computer under MacOS
> depending on the number of linux partition you've created, the
> previous XX number of the shared partition has changed, use
> SystemDisk again to get the new one, eg now it's ZZ
you can skip this step.
> 9) edit once again the yaboot.conf: modify the old XX to ZZ
> and insert a linux boot section as following
> init-message = "\nDebian PPC\nhit <TAB> for boot options\n\n"
> timeout = 50
> default = debian
>
> image=hd:ZZ,vmlinux-2.2.18
> label=install
> initrd=hd:ZZ,ramdisk.image.gz
> initrd-size=8192
> append="video=ofonly"
>
> image=hd:YY,/boot/vmlinux-2.2.18
> label=debian
> root=/dev/hdaYY
> append="video=ofonly"
>
> 10) reboot under OF once again, at boot prompt
> boot hd:ZZ, yaboot
you can skip this step, mkofboot will have already made debian bootable.
> - set up the /etc/yaboot.conf
> eg:
> # bootstrap partition
> boot=/dev/hdaNN
> device=hd:
> delay=20
> timeout=20
>
> # the OF menu to use
> magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
> # the booter to use
> install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
>
> # enable boot form cdrom
> enablecdboot
>
> # default OS, linux of course
> defaultos=linux
>
> # linux boot options.
> default=debian
>
> image=hd:YY,/boot/vmlinux-2.2.18
instead use:
image=/boot/vmlinux-2.2.18 # or better point to a symlink
partition=YY
the rest as you have it.
> label=debian
> root=/dev/hdaYY
> append="video=ofonly"
also if you kept macos, add a:
macos=/dev/hdaCC which is your macos partition.
> 12) run mkofboot on /dev/hdaNN --filesystem hfs
you don't need --filesystem hfs, that is the default. with the above
yaboot.conf you can run mkofboot with no command line switches and it
will work fine.
> just a note, as I've read on list, eth drivers for the eth card of the
> TiG4 are not so good.
well not so supported, i haven't heard that they are broken or
anything yet.
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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