I don't remember if this works on Old Worlds - in fact I think it doesn't - but I had a lot more luck with yaboot than with BootX when I installed Debian on my clamshell iBook.
Did you configure bootX properly? What's the last message? Do you have enough RAM? Do you use the right kernel? The instructions painstakingly given worked for me.
Did you install the BootX extension? Did you specify the right MacOS path to your kernel files (with correct case)? What happens if you try with a different kernel and/or initrd? It's 8192 KiB (8MiB), not 8 KiB. Did you get something wrong in the MacOS or Linux configuration for the video mode? I'm sorry, but debugging without seeing is impossible, so I can only give you very general advice: try to vary the parts until you identify the one that breaks. Ask for advice on a proper mailing list or IRC channel, whatever it is.
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for some reason, my pb3400 freezes up after I click the BootX to load Linux!?
any pointers?
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Partitioned the hdd with 200mb HFS extended - os9.1 installed and rest unallocated.
I've downloaded the latest vmlinux and initrd.gz from
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/netboot/
and configured BootX to use vmLinux kernel and initrd.gz as its ram disk with ~8K mem (default values)
System froze shortly after I click on the Linux on BootX, still whowing the boot os 9.1 logo!
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