Dual boot OS4.1 & Linux on Sam440

just got my Sam & will be putting together my system in the next week or so
..was reading Elwood's installation guide & am wondering if Hyperion has a SLB that allows Sam440 to boot up Linux?
or is Parthenope still the way to go?

@328gts

Parthenope is the only option as far as I know.

@TiredOfLife

There is an older SLB that will boot both, but I don't have it.

or you'll wait for a new version of SLB that will be able to boot both system

@MickJT

Wasn't aware of that.
I wonder why it was withdrawn?

ok just finished putting together my Sam & all boots up fine but the system crashes when I'm at step 16 of Elwood's guide (after choosing login name/pass & choosing mirror/proxy info) .....hangs at 5%

..tried repartitioning & installing twice with same result..any ideas

@328gts

I had that problem.
Think I ended up burning the first eight cds and installing that way.

@TiredOfLife

ok good to know..I will dl the 8 cd's & go from there....anything I shoudl know about the install other than what is already mentioned in Elwood's how to

ok just to be sure...the first cd is the 'Linux debian Lenny install CD-1" iso & then use the 2 to 8 'debian 502-1-power pc' ones right ?

@328gts

Note that something has changed in the Debian mirrors a few months ago. This makes the installation freeze as you experienced when it checks for the mirrors.

After many tests by me and Faranheit, we reached this conclusion.

Unfortunately, there's no good solution to this.
We managed to get around it installing with the ethernet cable unplugged (or the network not configured).
It makes the install process skip reading the mirrors.

Then when the system is installed, you can add mirrors by hand in your sources.list and update your system.

@328gts

Yes, that's correct

update:

ok finally got Debian installed using the 8 install CD's but had to unplug the ethernet cable or the system hangs (thanks Elwood & Tired).

problem now is that I forgot to create the config file after it finished loading and just ejected the CD and rebooted..now Sam cannot boot into Debian using Parthenope

anyone ?..please tell me I don't have to reinstall Debian again to create the config file...tried booting up with CD1 and entering 'Alt-F2' but the menu.lst is blank....

@328gts

What happens when you try?

@328gts

Quote:

When you enter the new terminal via alt-f2, you will most likely need to mount the hard drive otherwise all you will be looking at is the file system on the CD.

mkdir -p /tmp/harddrive
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/harddrive
(Assuming the device is SATA and it is partition 2 on the drive)

vi the menu.lst file on /mnt/harddrive to your needs.

I was looking at using CruxPPC as a dual boot distro with AmigaOS4.1 and have not really had a chance to look into Debian so I am making a few assumption on what Debian does.

@328gts:

Verify that the partition where you have installed boot files for Linux has the bootable flag and that it is in EXT2 filesystem, not EXT3 or any other filesystem !

Faranheit
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no luck so had to reinstall....modified menu.lst fin e but still cannot boot into Debian..get error "no SLB found in any of the designated sources:returiing to UBoot"

so far:installtion from 8 cd's went smooth, configuration edited, all UBoot setting seem ok..sda1 is set to ext2....do i have to install 'parthenope' file some how ???

@328gts

Boot your OS4 CD and install Parthenope on the HD with MediaToolbox as you would do with SLB.

@Elwood

forgot to mention I did try booting from OS4.1 CD but it hangs before the setup screen comes on ..workbench screen is blank and mouse works but other than that nothing else??? I thought maybe it had something to do with Parthenope not being installed...

rebooted & now get to the 'RunMedia Toolbox' or 'Format Disk' screen...system hangs yet again
..no error messages in workbench, mouse still works, can move windows around but nothing happens when I click on either button