On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:03:06PM +0000, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Well, > > It finally all works. Thanks to Chris and others who mailed me > suggestions. The only thing not working is the timeout so that it > boots automagically after x seconds, but I don't care about that right > now.
Cool! I shoulda read a couple more messages ahead in my mailer. > Things to note on oldworld machines : > > Always run system disk first. This may solve many of your problems. I > will be providing a dd'd image of an OS8 boot disk and a dd'd image of > a disk with SystemDisk on it in the next few days for those of us with > no bootable OS9. < Where should I put this for people to access ? > I don't think we can distribute that, it's not free software. > Make sure that your Linux partition appears before any Mac partitions > in the partition map. > > Make sure that all partitions that you wish to boot from are within > the first 8gig on beige G3's Was this one of your problems? Or did you find a pointer somewhere that this is an issue? > If you have problems with quik, do the following : > > - boot off of the install disks. > > - When you get the menu, hit alt-f2 and then enter to start a shell > > - mount your root filesystem (eg mount /dev/hda6 /mnt) > > - edit quik.conf and make sure that it looks something like the > following : > > init-message="Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC (woody)" > default=Linux > timeout=100 > root=/dev/hda6 > partition=6 > > image=/boot/vmlinux-2.2.19-pmac > label=Linux > read-only > > The partition=6 bit in this is important. This should probably ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H definitely match > whatever partition you have (eg 6 for hda6, 3 for hda3) > -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
