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Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90



On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 05:10:30PM +0200, Landry BRUNEL wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to install debian (retreived yesterday on a mirror site),
> without success (I'm not familiar with these platform).
> 
> My procedure is :
> 1 - boot from a floppy (made with a dd from the file boot-floppy-hfs.img
> retreived on ftp.debian....)
> 	OK
> 2 - insert root floppy (made with a dd from root.bin)
> 	OK
> 3 - entering parameters for install,
> 	partionning hardisk
> 		/dev/sda1-4 : as is
> 		/dev/sda5 : for /
> 		/dev/sda6 : for swap (~32 Mo)
> 	install from NFS,
> 	mounting a remote file system from unix : OK
> 	getting the rescue.bin and drivers.tgz : OK
> 	install from NFS, getting base2_2.tgz : OK
> 4 - selecting drivers 
> 	nothing selected
> 5 - installation ou packages OK,
> 6 - make hard disk bootable : yes
> 	it says I'm using quik and nothing else.
> 7 - make boot floppy : no because not yet possible,
> 8 - reboot
> 	
> Nothing, I have a (?)floppy icon and it waits until I insert the boot
> disk. I can't boot from the HDD. Here is my problem !

boot into the installer again, switch to virtual console 2 (command
f2)

then run:

nvsetenv boot-device 'scsi/sd@0:0'

this assumes your scsi disk is ID 0, if its the regular apple one then
 it is.  

then mount your root filesytem and check the /etc/quik.conf:

mount -t ext2 /dev/sda5 /target
cat /target/etc/quik.conf

it should look something like this:

timeout=20
partition=5

image=/boot/vmlinux-2.2.19
	label=linux
	root=/dev/sda5
	read-only

you can use ae to edit it if necessary.  after that i think rerunning
quik would be a good idea:

mount -t proc proc /target/proc
chroot /target /sbin/quik -f 

if it looks like it ran ok, then you can reboot:

umount /target
/sbin/reboot

you won't be able to see the quik prompt but you should boot into
debian.  

this above configuration works on a friend's 7200.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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