Question:
I'm trying to boot Debian sarge 3.1 rc4 on an elderly Motorola Powerstack
II 604e (PReP/Utah). According to the Debian pages, this system should be
supported.
I downloaded the current floppy images and the CD #1, but I can't boot
from any of these. Booting from floppy results in "unable to load disk
label", booting from CD outputs "could not load bootable image"
or something to that effect.
Any ideas on that? Is it possibly a debian bug?
Answer:
I can confirm the suggestion by Sven. The machine boots perfectly but
just not from anything else.
OK, I've been able to boot now from a local tftp server as suggested. The
system went into installation mode and so far everything seems to be OK.
Anyway, it's still not booting after the installation is finished.
Last output was something like: "You have chosen not to use a boot loader or a
boot loader is not available for your system. Boot from /dev/sda1 and use
root=/dev/sda3." (this is mounted to /).
I am where I started, only that I have a possibly running system on the disk,
but I can't get it going.
After booting the image from tftp, the system goes straight into that mode
without giving me any options, except for language, keyboard layout and
manual or guided partitioning.
Well, given the d-i situation, i don't know, but i have such a box, and will
provide patches if a bug report is opened, and a forked alternative d-i build
if the d-i guys don't get their act together, but things where going rather
well before christmas, so ...
I'm considering that, but first I want to make sure that the major problem is
not my lack of understanding basic ppc or OF concepts (since 1988, this is my
first step away from the x86 platform).
