Hi Geoff, Maybe you thought of this, but now that you have burned a cd anyway, at the openfirmware prompt do like:
boot cd:, yaboot.conf ...then within Debian installer during the partitioning section you can select the drive you want to install to, and make sure the Apple_bootstrap [bootable flag on, /mac partition] is there, also ? JB On Friday 17 January 2014 01:57:54 Geoff Down wrote: > Hello all, > I'm new to the list and to Linux as well, please be patient if I ask > foolish questions. > I'm trying to install DebianPowerPC_wheezy on a PowerMac G4 OSX10.4. It > has two hard drives, so I wiped the unused one (disk0) and created an > HFS partition (disk0s2) into which I copied vmlinux, initrd.gz, yaboot > and yaboot.conf from > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-powerpc/curren > t/images/powerpc/hd-media/ I downloaded > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.3.0/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-7.3.0-powe > rpc-CD-1.iso to the root directory of my OSX hard-drive (disk1s10 I think). > The md5 matches that on the website. > I rebooted the Mac into the Open Firmware prompt booted from disk0 > using 'boot hd:2,yaboot'. That works, although there is a warning about > the filesystem being HFS rather than Apple_Bootstrap. I started the > installer with 'install'. > When I came to the 'scan hardware for ISO image' step, it could not > find the ISO on disk1 (alias sdb) - I could see it was searching the > top few directories of that volume but it didn't see the ISO. > So I burnt the ISO to a CD-ROM, and tried again. At the same step it > failed to see the ISO when scanning automatically. I went into the shell > provided and checked that there was '/dev/cdrom' listed. The output of > dmesg also listed the CD-drive. The troubleshooting tip from the manual > of checking /proc/ide/cdrom or whatever for settings involving DMA was > not possible - there is no such directory nor any file called 'settings' > under /proc. > When I manually entered '/dev/cdrom' into the ISO search tool, it > eventually found the ISO: > '[cdrom] /dev/cdrom (stable-7.3)' > which suggests to me that it can read the device ok. But when I > confirmed that was the ISO I want to use, it just went back to the 'ISO > not found' page. > a) What am I doing wrong please? > In a previous attempt I got the installer to see an ISO in a different > partition *on the same hard disk* (disk0) as the installer. But I > aborted that install at the partitioning stage as I assumed that the ISO > image would in fact be destroyed in the partitioning process, leaving > the installation hanging. > b) Was I right? Or can you install from an image on the same hd? > > Thanks for your time, > Geoff Down -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
