Bug#315308: (no subject)
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: boot.img from http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-powerpc/current//images/powerpc/floppy/ on 6-21-2005
uname -a: Never got that far (Debian 3.1 Sarge)
Date: 6-21-2005, 15:25 EDT
Method: I tried installing a Power Macintosh G3 (Beige minitower) from a floppy.
I tried copying the image boot.img from my current Debian box using the command
"dd ..." as specified on to four different floppies. I tried .../floppy and .../floppy-2.4
and put the floppy in the system and as soon as it booted up, it spit the disk out of the system.
The screen showed a floppy disk with an x in it. Reinserting did nothing.
Machine: Power Macintosh G3 (Beige minitower) Processor:
Memory: ?
Root Device: ?
Root Size/partition table: ?
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [E]
Configure network HW: [ ]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
Boot.img seems not to work as the manual states the system will boot of
the floppy if inserted before powerup and will spit it out if it doesn't
recognize it as a boot disk.
I cleaned the floppy disk out good with compressed air, and used rubbing
alcohol on a q-tip on the heads and no improvement. It might be a bad
floppy drive I guess, but I have no way to test it as I have only one
macintosh floppy drive.
Is there any way to take the hard drive out of the system, install some
files somewhere else and then try booting Debian? I also admit I have no
SCSI card, and no hard drive with any MAC OS on it to setup files like
this on it.
Jacob Fugal
jpfugal@mtu.edu
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