...and if it doesn't find the yaboot file, also point to the exact location of the yaboot.conf for that cd If i remember right, it is [path]yaboot.conf
e.g. boot cd:, /install/yaboot.conf On Tuesday 21 January 2014 15:00:24 gw [j] iza [b] superstar wrote: > 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/curr > > en t/images/powerpc/hd-media/ I downloaded > > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.3.0/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-7.3.0-po > > we > > > > 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]
