Re: Booting 7200 without MacOS?
Hi Ethan I tried that too... but I end up zapping the PRAM trice to have the old MacOS bootX combo in order to NOT see a black screen? PMac 7600/132MHz, i. e.
Gjermund
On fredag 26. januar 2001 01:13, Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 04:23:16PM +0000, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've just acquired a cheap Mac (7200/90) for the purpose
>> of running Debian.
>>
>> It seems to work OK, but only has a 700Mb disk which I
>> very much doubt will be enough for both for both Debian
>> and MacOS. So, it would appear that my choices are:
>>
>> * buy another disk, or
>> * dump MacOS
>>
>> If at all possible, I'd prefer the latter. It would
>> appear possible to boot from a floppy, but there does
>> not appear to be a suitable disk image available.
>
>you can use quik to boot this machine, you need at least kernel 2.2.17
>or later though. the installer will install quik for you, but you
>need to set the boot-device OpenFirmware variable in order for it to
>be booted you can do that like so:
>
>nvsetenv boot-device "$(ofpath /dev/sda)0"
>
>just hit command F2 to get a second console and shell to run this
>command after the `Make debian bootable from the hard disk'
>
>i friend of mine has been booting a 7200 via quik with no trace of
>macos for some time now. only problem was 2.2.15 and 2.2.16 didn't
>boot on it (this didn't affect all 7200's), that was solved in
>2.2.17.
>
>when you partition the disk use the `i' command to create a clean
>empty partition table without all the MacOS driver cruft. see my
>partitioning doc at:
>http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc/mac-fdisk-basics.txt
>
>you don't need a bootstrap partition on oldworld.
>
>--
>Ethan Benson
>http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
>
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