Re: It works! (Was Re: Problem installing debian on G3 beige)
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;
>
> Now you've got a boot floppy which mounts your root filesytem :)
> For me it works!
>
> I've just finished installing the base system, but when the installer
> asked for type of package selection (simple or advanced) I selected simple
> and then it did a reboot (clean shutdown). Maybe there is some problems
> in the installer... but now debian boots and I'm going to use dselect
> and apt..
>
Is there a place where a idiot can download a working copy of the
boot-floppy-hfs.img?
thanks,
-mike
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