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Re: Booting 7200 without MacOS?




On søndag 28. januar 2001 14:56, Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 02:03:14PM +0100, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:
>> But quik.conf basically follows the same structure as
>lilo.conf? right?
>
>more or less, there are a few things you often need in quik.conf that
>do not apply to lilo.conf:
>
>1) partition=  this should be the partition number of the root
>filesystem, not always required but it often helps.  

done.

>
>2) image= should point to the real kernel image file, and not a
>symlink, quik should work ok with symlinks but i have have found that
>it does not always work with them (indirect experience).  

tried both.
>
>the point is quik could very well be outputting a simple and clear
>error message that your not seeing because OF does not display
>anything to the screen.  most oldworlds need the output-device
>variable changed to display to the screen, if they support it at all.
>otherwise a serial terminal is needed. 
>
>-- 
>Ethan Benson
>http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
>



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