Re: Debian Etch PPC install issue

On 2/21/08, David Shuman <d.shuman@att.net> wrote:
>
> Hi;
>
> I did a standard network install in a Oldworld Mac Performa 6400, install
> was clean - three times -- twice with a single root partition formatted Ext3
> and once with an single root formatted ext2 partition (hda6 -- MAC HFS
> Boot -- hda7 -- swap -- hda8 -- root - (linux partitionconfirmed in
> /target/etc/fstab during install). Copied vmlinux-2.6.18.. from /boot
> back to the HFS volume mounted at /target/mnt/mac (mount -t hfs /dev/hda6
> /target/mnt/mac). The boot after the install using BootX and the new Kernel
> and root-/dev/hda8 I got the following error all three times -- Invalid root
> partition 'hda8' or unknown-block(0,0). Any assistance at explaining the
> issue would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>

Hey,
  I don't have a mac, but others have had your problem and solved it by copying the kernel onto the mac partition in /system folder/Linux Kernels   See http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-3995.html

cheers,
Owen.

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