Re: etch hang on ibm JS21 and power 5 505

[Frank Habermann]

Hi,

sorry for late answer. I have tested this last week:
 I think you needs to do something like:
 a) Boot into a rescue environment
- I'd do this by adding init=/bin/bash to the commandline in yaboot
 b) remount the / filesystem read/write
- mount -o,remounr,rw / # should do it.
 c) change /etc/inittab to run a getty on hvc0
 d) Enable root logins on hvc0 by editing /etc/securetty
 e) finish the boot brocess with  exec /sbin/init

This works fine for me. Thanks for your help!

But my question is: Is that a normal procedure after install on such a system?

Frank


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Re: Booting powerbook G3 with Bootx or Quik

[Hans Ekbrand]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 12:04:17AM +0100, Paolo Perani wrote:
 Hi guys out there, I have a problem that is driving me crazy (well I am a 
 newbie..).
 I have installed the Debian 4.0 (I tried Netinstall and xfce) on my mac 
 Powerbook g3 wallstreet. The installation is no-problema I install the 
 minimal version of Debian because I only have 1,2G. I do the manual partition 
 and format the root partition with first ext2 and in the second try with ext3.
  
 /dev/hda7   swap
 /dev/hda8   root
 
 I choose as the first try not to install Quik because, if I may quote from 
 the manual:
 
 ???If you use BootX to boot into the installed system, just select your 
 desired kernel in the Linux Kernels folder, un-choose the ramdisk option, and 
 add a root device corresponding to your installation; e.g. /dev/hda8.???

That sounds like a obsolete passage in the manual with false
information. I reported a bug and attached a patch for the manual in
22 december 2005, however, the bug is still open:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=344477

The correct procedure has been documented several times on this list,
heres the principal steps:

1. Install (I think continue without a boot-loader is the correct
   thing to do if you want to use BootX)
2. Before rebooting, copy the installed kernel and initrd from /boot
   to the MacOS partition.
3. Reboot to MacOS.
4. Configure BootX to use this new kernel and its initrd instead of the
   installation kernel + installation initrd.

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Hans Ekbrand


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