On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:28:44AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > I think I found something usefull regarding the original boot floppy for > the powermac. It locks your keyboard, so I did the following: > > mount the disk > vi or edit .resource/System you should really use hexeditor, vi is not well suited to binary files. > find 'prompt_ramdisk=1' > change 1 into 0 > write it and boot it this effectivly disables loading the ramdisk or root floppy. this won't work for installing debian but will work to give you a bootable kernel floppy that can root to the root partition on your disk. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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