Newbie Debian Etch PPC Yaboot Problems.

[Brian Durant]

No flames please. I have tried everything I know to get Ubuntu installed 
with GNOME: Ubuntu Dapper Flight 3 and Flight 4, Kubuntu Breezy and 
Dapper Flight 4 as server installs. Nothing works without serious errors 
that are not resolvable by a newbie.

Here is my problem: I installed Debian (Etch) PPC (I think this is 
considered to be "testing"). At the end of the install, I got the 
following message:

"Yaboot didn't install. You will need to boot manually with the 
/boot/vmlinux kernel on partition /dev/sda3 and root=/dev/sda3 passed on 
as a kernel argument."

Since an Ubuntu yaboot kicks in at startup, I pressed "L" and then at 
the "boot" prompt, I wrote:

"/boot/vmlinux /dev/sda3 root=/dev/sda3"

This didn't work as I got the following error:

"Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 
unknown-block(0,0)"

Soooo, what do I do to boot into the Debian system for the first time 
and how do I resolve the yaboot issue permanently?

Cheers,

Brian