On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 02:36:57PM -0800, Ted Swinyar wrote: > Hello, > I am interested in getting Debian PPC going on an old Umax S900 > I've got sitting around. I got the CheapBytes CDs of Debian PPC and > was able to successfully boot into the initial installer and was > able to proceed through the installation until the part of the > install process where I was supposed to create a boot disk. At that > point I received an error message that this procedure was not > supported yet and have been unable to continue the process beyond > this point. Upon reboot Debian fails to boot and I'm kicked back to > square 1. boot floppy creation is not supported on powerpc so that part is normal. bootloader installation only works [partially] on oldworld macs such as yours. however the bootloader setup does not configure OpenFirmware to boot quik. you can try the following step to set the OF variable yourself: nvsetenv boot-device "$(ofpath /dev/hda)0" assuming its an ide disk, use /dev/sda if its scsi (and the first scsi disk). the other option is bootx but that requires macos which is quite ugly. > I have been surfing around the net and have read through the Debian > install guide, the FAQ-o-matic and penguinppc.net's guides. Has > anyone run into this type of problem previously? Is there anything > special I need to do to get the S900 going? the install docs mention the bootloader stuff. quik is not as well documented online though. (its simple really, but OpenFirmware is black art) > If this isn't the appropriate place to post questions like these, I > apologize in advance and would appreciate any guidance as to other > locations where I could find assistance on this. no this list is fine. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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