Novice - Can't get hard disk to boot - PowerTower
Hi All,
I am a Mac power user, but at novice at Linux. I have a buddy who is
helping, but he's never set up a PPC. We can't seem to get the hard drive
to be bootable. We followed the new world YaBoot procedure to no avail. I
have the hard disk fully devoted to Linux, with the Apple_Bootstrap as the
first partition - it is not mounted.
I was unable to validate that my hardware is fully compatible - at this
point I'm wondering if this might be the problem. Power Computing
PowerTower Pro with a Newer Tech MaxPower G4 upgrade. The system boots off
of the install floppies and the install goes fine up to the hard disk boot
step.
Two other problems - apparently it is not possible to make a boot floppy
from this configuration,
I could reinstall the 604 processor card in the machine. My application is
low hit Web sites, FTP, DNS, & EMAIL servers, and Mac emulation to run
LetterRip Pro, a list server that I have too much effort invested into to
switch folks at this juncture to a Linux alternative.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dean
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