Michael Hrivnak wrote:
Folks,
I want to install debian for use on my ibook on an external USB hard drive.
The installation goes smoothly until it tries to install yaboot. It fails
with no explanation, and I can't figure out why.
The only relevant messages I see look like this:
yaboot-installer: info: probed: /dev/discs/disc0/part3:Mac OS X:MacOSX:macosx
yaboot-installer: debug: mapped: /dev/hda3
I created the NewWorld boot partition as part of my manual partitioning, and
it is the first partition on the drive. All other partitions are part of lvm
(home, root, swap). I also tried letting debian auto-partition with the same
results.
I'm used to linux on PCs, so my knowledge of how macs boot is slim. Can you
help me diagnose this? Hopefully it's a simple problem. I've googled and
such with no luck.
FWIW, this is the latest debian-ppc install cd with an ibook G4 and a 160GB
external usb2.0 hard drive.
Thanks a lot,
Michael
Michael,
From what I understand installing is a big no no with a firewire drive.
I did an Ubuntu install on my mac laptop and even though I wasn't
installing on the firewire drive, just having it hooked up with a no no.
It kept balking at the point when yaboot was being installed.
Eventually I found through googling that this is a known issue
with no known fix. You might want to query to the Debian PPC
list to see if some fix been found.
Matt
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