On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:43:39AM +0100, Simon Vallet wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:26:52 -0800 > Brad Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:44:08AM +0100, Simon Vallet wrote: > > > I have absolutely no idea on why it seemed to go further... my OF is > > > of course broken, but used to be OK once you had the correct > > > settings. > > > > But were you using an initrd in the working configuration? For my > > 7600, I always used either bootx or a vmlinux.coff with an embedded > > ramdisk image if I needed to use an initrd. I don't think booting the > > installer directly from quik was ever supported before. > No, I boot directly with quik -- the machine is a Beige G3 RevII and I > never had the use for an initrd... until now. > What I find surprising is the inconsistent behaviour, first finding the > initrd (but not going further), and then not being able to find it again > (with the same config... I think)
It would be nice to isolate exactly what you did. > What is the default (recommended, working,...) boot method > for di on OldWorlds ? Since I'd rather _not_ use BootX (had enough work > getting rid of it :-), is .coff with embedded ramdisk the only way ? If > so, how would I build such an image ? miboot and floppies, i think. Friendly, Sven Luther