Oldworld Wallstreet and Debian troubles

[highlandcattle]

Hi guys,

For evening classes I'm following we are learning command-linux and I thought about using my Wallstreet Powerbook G3 as an excersice tool.

I looked up all the info. downloaded BootX and debian harddrive installer from this site:

http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/

I installed everything. that went allright. At the end of the installation the installer asks if I want to use Quik. I said no, because I still want to be able to use the Mac OS 9.2.2 partition. So then the installer tells me that vmlinux should be on hda14 and the root on hda15 (I did the linux install on one partition) and I should boot manually. I assume that is with bootX?

I tried but the when I boot with bootx . The linux kernel tells me it can't find any mountable devices and will reboot in 180 seconds.

Do I still have to manually put VMlinux on hda14? I don't now what to do. please help!

 

[theos911]

I believe you need to specify the the root device.

Inside the kernel arguments box try:

root=/dev/hda14

or 15

If that doesn't work replace 14 with numbers starting at 1 until it does work. You should get the same error you are currently getting even with an incorrect number. If you get something about a file system check failing and it drops to a root shell add a space after hda14 and add "fastboot" like this:

root=/dev/hda14 fastboot

Hopefully I'm not too late :I