On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 05:09:04PM -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > It isn't a problem with COFF v. ELF or any of that. The kernel boots, it just doesn't get the ADB keyboard > working/functional. Once you paw through 57 different doc sources, you can get BootX to work, and then go from there. > If you don't already have a MacOS partition running, you are probably in an pretty tough spot. apparently something is broken on the current boot floppies, hopefully they will be upgraded soon. but that is really Dan's department. > The CDROM drive won't boot the CD, I assumed it is because this old machine isn't capable, but I don't know. I tried a > new SCSI CDROM drive in it, it refused to even recognize the drive on boot up. the CDs are NOT bootable on any oldworld mac, with any kind of CDROM. this has been discussed many times. Oldworld will likely never have bootable CDs in the near future. (unless someone either writes a oldworld CDROM bootloader that does not require proprietary Apple CD drivers or writes a Free replacement for Apple's CD drivers) > Another humorous bug is that during the install, it says "make the system bootable from the hard drive?" and of course > you say "yes", and it acts like it did something excellent, but it didn't. I think this part of the install is a noop on > PPC, is that right? Should be #ifdef'd out. no it should not, it does work on oldworld powerpc (*not* newworld though, see the install docs). if you read the install docs you will see something like this: IMPORTANT: The Make-Linux-Bootable-Directly-From-Hard-Disk step will install quik, however it will not make the necessary modification to OpenFirmware's boot-device variable. This means that running Make-Linux-Bootable-Directly-From-Hard-Disk will not cause Debian GNU/Linux to be booted when you reboot. To make Debian GNU/Linux boot you need to select Execute-a-Shell and run: nvsetenv `ofpath /dev/sda2` where /dev/sda2 is your root partition. Perform this step after running Make-Linux-Bootable-Directly-From-Hard-Disk. read the installation docs read the installation docs read the installation docs read the installation docs read the installation docs it can't be said enough. yes they are not perfect but they do answer half the questions that are asked on this list every other day. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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