Re: cannot make system bootable (PMac 6500)
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Allan Streib wrote:
> OK that does not work. ofpath still cannot find the device path for
> /dev/hda3 (my root partition). ofpath --debug /dev/hda3 produces:
What DID work were the instructions at:
http://mike.quintero.staff.noctrl.edu/slackintosh/index-2002-07-12.html
In summary I did the following on my PowerMac 6500
* IGNORE the "Make system bootable" in the installer. It uses ofpath
which evidently does not work on this particular machine/model.
* Go to the console (Option-F2)
* Use nvsetenv to set the following OpenFirmware variables
auto-boot? false (just in case...)
boot-device ata/ata-disk@0:3 (my root partition is 3)
input-device kbd
output-device /bandit/ATY,264GT-B
* Make a quik.conf file in /target/etc (where the installer mounts
/dev/hda3). Use the "nano-tiny" editor for this. File should contain
the following:
partition=3
root=/dev/hda3
timeout = 100
default = linux
image = /vmlinux
label = linux
* Remove the symlink /target/vmlinux. The URL above mentions that quik
will not follow symlinks, and that the kernel image must be at the top
of the filesystem. So copy /target/boot/vmlinux-2.2.20-pmac to
/target/vmlinux.
* Execute /target/sbin/quik -v -r /target
* Reboot. At the OpenFirmware boot prompt, type "boot /vmlinux".
Away it went -- booted flawlessly. Once I am comfortable with
everything I will probably nvsetenv boot-comand "boot /vmlinux" and
nvsetenv auto-boot? true.
Allan
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