On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 07:18:10PM +0100, Dave Turner wrote: > I have spent an unhappy Sunday afternoon trying to install the woody > release onto my Rev A 233MHz iMac from CD-ROM. > > As far as I can tell the actual install proceeds normally, then at > the end when I agree to make the system bootable I am asked to remove > the CD-ROM (which I do), and am rewarded by a blank grey screen and a > locked machine. > > I tried install24 and got same thing. > install24-safe is the closest I have got to something that might actually > boot. > > Open Firmware "printenv" shows the boot device as hd:2;,\\tbxi > (or something like that anyway) > > if I type boot hd:2, yahboot (note the space between the comma and > yahboot) then I get the response:- > > MAC-PARTS: LOAD (noninterposed) not supportedload-size=0 adler32 =1 > LOAD-SIZE is too small > > if I type boot hd:2,yahboot > then the system just locks up. > > Does anybody know what the problem is? > Does anyone know how I might fix it? > Has anyone got Woody up and running on a Rev A iMac?
Yes. Step by step, when you reboot: Do you see a boot: prompt? If you do nothing for ten seconds or so, do you get an error message? You should not hold Cmd-Opt-O-F when rebooting, normally. What printenv shows is right, assuming you stuck in an extra ;. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual> | | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To Have, Give All to All (ACIM) | *----------------------------------------------------------------*