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Re: Can't boot floppy on PowerMac G3



--- Holger Levsen <debian@layer-acht.org> wrote:
> But I guess you mean, you saw the same results as with the 2.6
> floppies ?!
Sorry, I do mean the 2.4 floppies give the same results at the
2.6 floppies.

> > The floppy is good BTW; I ran a full write badblocks test.
> 
> On the machine you were writing it ?

Yes. Just now, I downloaded the 2.4 images under OS 9.2 on the
PowerBook and attempted to make boot and root floppies with the
Make Debian Floppies script. The boot disc made OK; the root
floppy gave me an error about root.bin not being a valid disc
image. I tried to boot with the boot floppy anyway--same as
before.

I then took this floppy to the machine which I had been using to
make the discs before, dd'd it to an image file, and compared
this image to a downloaded image. No difference.

> The rc3 floppy-2.4 boot.img works fine here. You never see the
> mac-computer icon transform into a pinguin ?

Nope.

> Maybe you can do netbooting using tftp? Try "boot enet:" in
> OpenFirmware.

I guess that's the next step, but I was under the impression
netboot doesn't work on Old World.

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