On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:12:08PM +0200, ben@fuchs-edv.de wrote: > hello, > i have a Apple G3/266 with internal ide drives. i partitioned a drive as > so: this is a beige G3, correct? blue ones don't exist that slow... > hdc1 partition map > hdc2 Apple_Bootstrap 800k this won't help you on OldWorld (which is what you have), its still good to make one in case you wanted to move the disk to a newworld. > hdc3 LinuxSwap 200MB > hdc4 LinuxRoot 2GB > > i then booted off the latest Debian2.2r3 CD for PMAC and followed all > the steps, mounting hdc4 as root /. > when the base install is finished the install script says "reboot mac" > it then reboots but i just get a blinking disk image. why is the debian > installer not able to make the root partition bootable ? because OldWorld OpenFirmware sucks, we make a much better attempt make the disk bootable in woody boot-floppies but im afraid it will still fail probably 60% of the time. for your machine you need to reconfigure OpenFirmware, see the install docs about using ofpath, and see http://penguinppc.org/usr/quik for information on quik. reliably making the disk bootable only works on NewWorld PowerMacs (Blue G3s, iMacs, iBooks, G4s etc), and it only works in woody boot-floppies, not potato's. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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