Re: Debian make my G3 go!

[Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>]

At 03:17 -0700 1998-08-16, Martin Schulze wrote:
>Joel Klecker wrote:
>> I made /dev/hda7 on tervola bootable using quik 1.3.0, I suggest you try
>> booting from it. The current SCSI root partition remains bootable, so you
>> should be able to go back to it if booting from IDE fails.
>
>Do you know what I need to tell OF to boot from IDE?
>
>ide/hd@0:0 or what?

>From http://www.duke.edu/~wj/linux/booting.html:

Booting off the IDE drive
      boot-device         ata/ata-disk@0:0    (ata/@0:0 works for me also)
      boot-file           ata/ata-disk@0:X/vmlinux root=/dev/hdaX
                          (substitute X with the appropriate partition #)

>I assume hda7 contains the same system like the current?

Yes.
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy)
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