Re: Trying to boot a PowerMac 4400/200
Uwe Muench <muench@grav.missouri.edu> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to switch from some old LinuxPPC version to Debian. My
> PowerMac 4400/200 seems to be more broken than even normal ones,
> though...
>
> First I created boot disks (with 'dd' on a well-working
> Debian-Intel-PC). The first disk works fine (it boots with
> the Penguin icon, then boots Linux until it asks for the root
> disk). Well, the font is not very readable, but it's ok as since I
> know what should be there and it's readable enough for that...
> But then it never can read the root disk, therefore can't mount
> anything and eventually reboots... So, no success...
You might try a few different floppies. Floppies are notoriously
unreliable.
> Now, I tried to use this Boot_X program from the little Mac partition
> that's there from years ago... (following the description by Kent
> West, that he mailed here...). Well, my Netscape 3.0 can't get the
> file as sit-archive, so I tried 'fetch'. Which gets it as sit-file
> just fine, it seems. But unfortunately my Mac is still not intelligent
> enough to extract the Boot_X_...sit file (which is the difference to
> Kent's PowerMac 4400/200...). It always claims that the archive is
> corrupted and that there is either an 'unexpected eof' or that 'file
> locked up'. Well, it doesn't expand it, so again, no success...
Can you download it under linuxppc? If you have hfsutils installed,
you can unpack sit files under linux right onto your hfs partition.
> This Mac drives me crazy. The window is too small, so it survived up
> to now... Argh...
I know. It sucks. Fortunately you can do most of it in linux.
Good luck,
cbb
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