fail to boot on harddrive with a Performa 6400
Hi everybody,
Could someone help me for the following problem, please?
I am a system administrator in a University and I tried to install Debian
PPC (potato and woody) on some Performa 6400... the installation went
relatively well with the potato boot floppies, but I have been unable to make
it boot from the harddrive.
I would like to use quik and not BootX since I don't want to let MacOS
available on them.
I have tried any possible configuration or trick from a lot of documentation sources:
http://penguinppc.org/usr/quik
http://penguinppc.org/usr/quik/quirks.shtml
http://lppcfom.sourceforge.net/
etc...
(the Open Firmware on Performa 6400 is 2.0)
Some people reported success making it boot (but maybe not with quik).
I saw that I should change load-base to 100000, keep input-device and output-device
to ttya, I removed the modem to see if it would change something, I upgraded to
woody to have a newer version of quik...
BTW quik runs without problems:
mac-performa2:~# quik -vf
Second-stage loader is on /dev/hda6
Config file is on partition 6
Writing first-stage QUIK boot block to /dev/hda6
Making /dev/hda6 bootable (map entry 6)
Writing block table to boot block on /dev/hda6
All I can get at best when every parameter seemed ok, is a weird screen at boot with
black and white horizontal lines. Sometimes it displays what seems to be some
characters, but really really scrambled. But it never boots. It stops just there, at the
very beginning of the boot.
I tried to use the video parameters that seemed the most comptible:
video=ofonly or atyfb. I tried to use a kernel from a linuxppc bootable cd which boots
well, but once on the harddrive the result is the same as with the default woody
kernel: the black and white lines (most of the time) or the scrambled characters.
here are some more infos about my config:
--- quik.conf ------------------
root=/dev/hda6
append="video=ofonly"
timeout=20
image=/boot/vmlinux-2.2.19
label=Linux
read-only
--------------------------------
----- mac-fdisk ----------------
/dev/hda
# type name length base ( size ) system
/dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map
/dev/hda2 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 64 @ 64 ( 32.0k) Driver 4.3
/dev/hda3 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 64 @ 128 ( 32.0k) Unknown
/dev/hda4 Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 192 (256.0k) Unknown
/dev/hda5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 260000 @ 704 (127.0M) Linux swap
/dev/hda6 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 / 3073760 @ 260704 ( 1.5G) Linux native
Block size=512, Number of Blocks=3334463
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1: @ 64 for 20, type=0x1
2: @ 128 for 31, type=0x701
--------------------------------
----- of variables -------------
nvsetenv load-base 0x100000
nvsetenv boot-device "ata/ATA-Disk@0:0"
nvsetenv boot-file "ata/ATA-Disk@0:6/boot/vmlinux-2.2.19 root=/dev/hda6"
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any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Dams.
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