Re: Problem installing debian on G3 beige
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 12:27:18PM -0800, Mark Jaroski wrote:
> When I tried it with my G3 266 I had a lot better luck starting
> out booting from BootX than with the floppies. Actually I
> pretty much never turn the machine off, so I haven't gotten
> around to dealing with quik...
>
>
> You might want to try BootX, assuming you still have MacOS on
> the machine. I have a working Beige G3 kernel if you want it...
I installed it on a new hard disk.. I have macos on another hd
which is not installed..
Don't you know how to put a zImage kernel on a hfs formatted floppy
(like boot-floppy-hfs.img) ?
I know oldworld ppc can read only vmlinux.coff style kernel.. but the
boot-floppy has a zImage kernel..
I tried with a kernel from http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debian-ppc-bugs.html
(ie http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debs/vmlinux.coff-2.2.15), I do the
following in OF:
0 > setenv boot-device fd:vmlinux.coff
0 > setenv boot-file root=/dev/sda3 (my root partition)
0 > boot
It starts loading (loader: loading XCOFF ...) but then (after
clearing .bss, done..) it says CLAIM failed, and returns to OF.
If I use:
0 > setenv boot-device /pci@80000000/ADPT,2940U2B@D/disk@0,0
0 > setenv boot-file /boot/vmlinux-2.2.18pre21 root=/dev/sda3
after typing boot the hd led blinks, but it says:
DEFAULT CATCH!, code=FFF00300 at %SRR0: FF80B51C %SRR1: 0000B070
and it hangs!
If the vmlinux.coff approach is correct, I'd like very much to have
a small kernel (with aha2940 and de4x5 ethernet card), but also I'd like
to know how to make a zImage kernel like boot-floppy-hfs.img...
Any ideas ??
Thanks very much...
>
> It's got the USB stuff compiled in, which might be a problem for
> you if you don't have a USB card.. I also turned on support for
> the Tulip 100MB ethernet they were distributing with the Beige
> G3s.
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