> My first debian install was potato on my G4/450/AGP, and that went > relatively smoothly, but unfortunately, that's my work box, and I need to be > running MacOS 95% of the time on it, so I had to switch back after a few > days of playing with it...However, I've got an old Power Computing Powerwave > 132 that I've been trying to install debian on, without a whole lot of > success. I knew about the OF output to serial port issue beforehand, and > picked up a Griffin G4port serial port for my G4 so I could set up the Zterm > terminal app to talk to my Powerwave and tell it to send the output to the > video card and keyboard (since System Disk gave an error saying it didn't > work with my machine). I followed all the steps in both Apple's Open > Firmware Technote and NetBSD's MacPPC FAQ but have not been able to get the > output to display in Zterm despite trying every combination of settings I > could find, and even trying plugging into the printer serial port instead of > the modem port (purely out of desperation), to no avail. The Powerwave stops > booting in just the right place when I use the OF key combo, but nothing > shows up in the terminal. I'm totally stumped and haven't been able to find > any help anywhere else, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. >
I was successful in the end, with a PowerBase 180. BootVars (v1.3 is available in the current/powermac folder) worked to set the OF environment variables from MacOS. BTW, BootX crashed every time I tried it, both at startup and as an application, and System Disk told me the same thing. I have BootVars v1.4 but I forgot where I found it. -- Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
