Bug#137717: boot-floppies: [powermac] unable to make system bootable on Beige G3
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 04:59:22PM +0100, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: N/A; reported 2002-03-10
> Severity: normal
>
> I'm trying to install Woody on my PowerMacintosh G3/300 MT
> (Beige) with a single HD attached to the Apple 53c875 UW
> SCSI host adapter. Everything works fine, the hard disk
> is recognized and Woody is installed on the disk, except
> that the installer is unable to make the system bootable
> and complains:
>
> --cut--
> Unable to install Quik
>
> The requested operation cannot be performed because
> the OpenFirmware device name for the root disk could
> not be determined.
> --cut--
ofpath doesn't always work on all machines. If your root installation
is on e.g. /dev/sda2, what does
# ofpath /dev/sda
say? If it looks like a proper OF device name, then use
# nvsetenv boot-device device-name
but add a 0 after the colon to denote partition 0, the boot block.
Although this is not really part of what quik does, it wouldn't hurt
to run
# quik -v
after you're done. BTW, at the OpenFirmware prompt, you can check the
device tree with
0 > dev / ls
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*------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------*
| <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> |
| debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> |
| Chris Tillman tillman@voicetrak.com |
| May the Source be with you |
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