I found my problem. After booting the "rescue" from the CD, and using it to reading the "yaboot" man page (where it repeatedly pointed out that the Apple_Boot "bootstrap" partition should _not_ be mounted on the /boot mount point) I realized that I should not have made a mountpoint (especially not /boot) for the bootstrap partition.
Once I cleared that up, everything went swimmingly. Question: There does not seem to be any way of reading the Mandrake Linux man pages except by successfully getting it up and running on a computer. It would be nice if they were available as PDF's or something from the MandrakeLinux web site... Has this already been done and I'm just too blind to find it? Enjoy! Rick Rick Thomas wrote: > I've installed Mandrake Linux PPC 8.2beta2 on my Mac TiBook. > > When I attempt to start up it refuses to boot the newly installed > Linux. Here's what happens: > > 1) I startup with the chime, goes into the open-firmware multi-os > program tasks whether I want to boot from the CD, MacOS, Linux, or > Open-Firmware. I answer "l" for Linux (all the other options work fine, > "l" is the only one that has problems) > > 2) It goes into the "welcome to... ... boot:" dialog. If I hit tab I > get two options, one is "linux", the other is "rescue" or something like > that. I type "linux" or hit the C/R key. > > 3) It says "hd:10/vmlinuz-2.4.18-6mdk: Unknown or corrupt filesystem" > > Now, /dev/hda10 is the "Apple_Boot" partition that I configured for > "/boot". It's 80MB in size. I tried it with 1MB and the installation > partition section died with a "premature eof", presumably trying to > write stuff to the /boot partition. > > I can do a rescue boot from the CD, and all the partitions look OK. The > /boot partition has a file called vmlinuz-2.4.18-6mdk > > Anybody got any clues? > > Rick > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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