Bug#273986: Quasi-successful Installation - Sarge netinst rc1 on Beige G3

[Holger Levsen <debian@layer-acht.org>]

Hi,

thanks for your bug report!

> Output of lspci and lspci -n:
> 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] (rev 40)
> 0000:00:10.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Heathrow Mac I/O (rev 01)
> 0000:00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage I/II
> 215GT [Mach64 GT] (rev 9a)
> 0000:00:00.0 0600: 1057:0002 (rev 40)
> 0000:00:10.0 ff00: 106b:0010 (rev 01)
> 0000:00:12.0 0300: 1002:4754 (rev 9a)

could you also please post the output of /proc/cpuinfo ?!

> Install boot loader:    [E]
> Quik is either broken, malconfigured, or the wrong tool for this box. It
> installed and ran, but I haven't gotten it to work. Some scripting/help
> should be included to guide us dual-booties to copy the new kernel and
> initrd to the MacOS partition.

quik seems to be - to say the least - not the best tool for this box. quoting 
http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/quik/quirks.php:

PowerMac Beige G3 Rev. 1 (RageII+ Video)
2.0f1
 
Must Run System Disk to Apply OF Patches First 
Slave IDE and Zip Drives May Be Unreliable to Boot From 
May need to experiment with the following list of Load-base: 4000, 60000, 
100000 or 1000000. 
A


PowerMac Beige G3 Rev. 2 (RageII Pro Video)
2.4
 
Must Run System Disk to Apply OF Patches First 
Zip drives and Floppy Drives May Be Unreliable to Boot From 
May need to experiment with the following list of Load-base: 4000, 60000, 
100000 or 1000000. 
A


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which model (rev) do you own ? i guess it should be possible to detect the mac 
model (see www.applehistory.com) based on the output of 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' 
and 'lspci' - so i'm trying to gather some data.

if i understand quirks.php correctly you have to patch your open firmware with 
a mac system disk first - that's impossible for the debian-installer but 
should be described in the manual.


regards,
 Holger