On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:17:32AM -0500, Matt Grant wrote: > I made the two boot disks ,booted up, and partitioned my Hard disks > /dev/sda1 partition map > /dev/sda2 / > /dev/sdb1 partion map > /dev/sdb2 swap > /dev/sdb3 /usr > I get through the install and when I reboot I get a Mac Disk flashing with > an X in the middle(I think this means The Mac HardWare can't find a OS) > > I don't want to run Mac OS I just want debian. I went through the Docs and am > Confused about a bootmanager or a bootstrap loader. If someone can help > I would appreciate it. i assume you ran the `make bootable from disk' this should install quik, and it should work. but you still need to fix the OpenFirmware boot-device variable. use nvsetenv boot-device scsi/sd@0:0 or something like that. i have a script to help find the OpenFirwmare device its in my ybin distribution (which is otherwise newworld only) its called ofpath. its also in the yaboot package in proposed-updates. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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