So, I picked up a beige G3 300 from eBay. It has OpenFirmware 2.4, and
has a Rage 64 Pro graphics chip.
I'm trying to complete an install of woody on this machine. BootX works
great, but I've had no luck with quik. Specifically, the symptoms are
that it just sits there on reboot -- not even a monitor signal or any
error message. Boot into OF, type 'boot', and I see 'unable to open
ata/ata-disk@0:0'. (I've tried every conceivable combination for
boot-device, including substituting 0:0 for 0:2, see below, and been
through every value for load-base).
The machine's configuration is that there's a fresh disk on ide0's
master, and the MacOS 9.2 disk is slave on ide1. MacOS will boot fine.
I ran SystemDisk in order to set up booting to OF, as per instructions.
I've spent a significant amount of time searching this list and other
sources and can't find anything that successfully tells me the answer.
If anyone has beaten this particular problem, I'd love to hear from
them.
Here's the partitioning of the disk:
/dev/hda
# type name length
base ( size ) system
dump: name /dev/hda len 8
/dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @
1 ( 31.5k) Partition map
/dev/hda2 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 12582912 @
64 ( 6.0G) Linux native
/dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 var 8388608 @
12582976 ( 4.0G) Linux native
/dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 901120 @
20971584 (440.0M) Linux swap
/dev/hda5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 other 134217728 @
21872704 ( 64.0G) Linux native
/dev/hda6 Apple_Free Extra 211056 @
156090432 (103.1M) Free space
Running quik -vf gives;
# quik -vf
Second-stage loader is on /dev/hda2
Config file is on partition 2
Writing first-stage QUIK boot block to /dev/hda2
Making /dev/hda2 bootable (map entry 2)
Writing block table to boot block on /dev/hda2
thanks
-- Edd (currently stuck with BootX but doesn't want to be)
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