Re: touble making Power Mac 7200 boot directly into Linux
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 07:08:51PM +0200, Michael Lyngb?l wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble booting Linux on my Power Macintosh 7200/75.
>
> Installation of Debian 2.2 went fine (booting MacOS on an external disk
> and using BootX to boot into Linux works fine).
>
> Right now I'm not able to boot directly into Linux - I have to boot
> MacOS and then use BootX to get Linux running.
>
> Read quik(8), quik.conf(5) - no success. /etc/quik.conf looks like this:
>
> root@mac:~# cat /etc/quik.conf
> root=/dev/sda2
> timeout=100
> image=/vmlinuz
> label=linux
> read-only
> root@mac:~# quik -v
> Second-stage loader is on /dev/sda2
> Config file is on partition 2
> Writing first-stage QUIK boot block to /dev/sda2
> Making /dev/sda2 bootable (map entry 2)
> Writing block table to boot block on /dev/sda2
> root@mac:~#
>
> Still not able to boot directly into Linux.
>
> I've haven't figured out how booting of a PowerPC works? I suppose I'm
> missing something?
I'm guessing you need to use nvsetenv. You'll have to set boot-device;
probably to "scsi-int/sd@0:0" or something like that.
Dan
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