Re: unsuccessful installation on oldworld powermac apple 6400/180

[Wouter Hanegraaff <wouter@openoffice.nl>]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:33:45AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> 
> As I've said before, if you can afford the disk space (big IDE 
> disks are cheap) the boot loader that I suggest as being most 
> robust and flexible is MacOS with BootX.

Ok, could you send me the MacOS installation CD? I don't have one and
mac os is no longer installed.

> That said, if you really want to boot from floppy, you can use the 
> install "boot" floppy, but you will need to construct your own 
> "root" floppy that is aware of the location of your real root 
> filesystem on the hard disk.  It should load whatever modules are 
> required for your hardware then perform a pivot_root operation to 
> the real root.

How do you change boot parameters on the oldworld mac boot floppies?
There is no boot promt where I can type them in manually.
It's really annoying to have successfully installed debian and not being
able to use it because the system is not bootable...

Wouter