Re: It works! (Was Re: Problem installing debian on G3 beige)

[Mark Jaroski <mark@geekhive.net>]

On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:30:22AM +0100, Manea Mirko wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> thanks to the help of Ethan I succeeded in creating a boot floppy.
> 
> The steps are the following:
> 
> 1. get boot-floppy-hfs.img and dd it to a floppy;
> 2. test if you can boot (it will prompt for a ramdisk). I had to use an
> old boot-floppy-hfs.img (with kernel 2.2.17) because latest (with
> 2.2.18pre21, I think) locks the keyboard;
> 3. get boot-floppies sources (from http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/boot-floppies.html) and untar it;
> 4. cd to boot-floppies-2.2.17/powerpc-specials/miBoot;
> 5. with a hex editor (like khexedit or beav) edit System.bin;
> 6. near the end (~00012d00) you'll find:
>    root=0200 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 adb_buttons=100,111 video=atyfb:vmode:14,cmode:16,mclk:63
>    where root=XXYY, ie XX major and YY minor number of the device to mount
>    as root (/dev/sda2 -> root=0802, /dev/sda3 -> root=0803, look in /dev/);
> 7. set load_ramdisk=0 and prompt_ramdisk=0;
> 8. insert boot-floppy-hfs.img and do a hmount /dev/fd0;
> 9. hcopy System.bin :
> 10. humount;

Thanks, Marco for posting this consise proceedure!  Good luck
with the rest..


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