On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 08:39:01PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings Fellow Friends - > > Powerbook G3 400 (Pismo) > 320MB RAM - DVD/CD > > I booted the Debian 3.0 (powerpc) .ISO cd and ran the installer fine. > > When I selected "Make Hard Drive Bootable", it appeared to go fine. > > When I went to reboot the system, I got the folder with a ? on it. > > My (simplified) partition map is as follows: > > /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple ... Partition map > /dev/hda2 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 debian ... Linux native > /dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap ... Linux swap > > Is this okay? > > Am I correct that yaboot, etc., are only needed for a dual-OS system?
No, that's why it failed. You need the yaboot Apple_Bootstrap partition. yaboot is the equivalent of lilo, it loads the kernel into memory. To recover, use Cmd-Opt-P-R to reset the PRAM, then reboot the installer. -- http://Www.TruthAboutWar.org Chris Tillman - Linux Rox -
