Re: I have successfully install Debian on to a Power Mac 7200/75
Maybe you need some root???
On søndag 12. november 2000, james@soon.co.uk wrote:
>Hello
>
>I have successfully install Debian Power PC GNU/Linux 2.2 rev 0
>non US on to a Power Mac 2700/75 (system outline below) using
>BootX to boot Linux from a second hard disk with a Linux fs on
>it. But BootX is of course working from within the Mac OS and
>my end goal is to run the 2700/75 as a Debian only system.
>
>All my attempt to make the 2700/75 a Debian stand alone system
>fails at the ?The Moment of Truth? reboot of the system. I
>have tried rebooting both from the hard disk and from a miBoot
>v1.0a3 description as follows:
>
>Hard disk boot:
>Screen goes blank and the 2700/75 seems to hang.
>
>miBoot v1.0a3 floppy boot:
>This method stops at a ?Rebooting in 180 seconds.. ? with the
>following error message
>
>Warning: unable to open init console.
>Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to
>kernel.
>
>I have had this problem before with BootX when I did not
>install the ramdisk.image.gz. I have assumed that with a Debian
>only installation this problem is caused by something new.
>
>The Debian install documentation indicates that I may have to
>troubleshoot boot problems by adding special boot arguments to
>the system but it seems unclear as to how this is to be done.
>
>I would be very grateful if any one could give me a suggestion
>as to what to do next.
>
>Look forward to receiving any helpful pointers.
>
>James
>
>System Outline:
>Power Mac 7200/75
>CD-ROM
>32MB RAM
>External L2 cache 512K
>SCSI ID = 4 Hard Drive 520MB
>Partition scheme - 20MB BOOT (unused at reboot), 64MB SWAP, 436MB HOME (unused at reboot)
>SCSI ID = 6 Hard Drive 1.19GB
>Partition scheme - one partition 1.19GB ?/?
>
>James Aitken
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