Re: Continued problems booting Debian on oldworld G3
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:00:43AM +0000, Wayne Pascoe wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I followed some of the advice that I received here about moving the
> partition I was trying to boot with quik to in front of the macosX
> partition. This still failed.
>
> I have now abandoned the idea of dual booting for the moment and am
> just trying to boot debian on this beast.
>
> I booted off of the woody disks, and at partition time, hit i and
> reinitialised the disk. This means that I now have only the apple
> partition map, an ext2 partition of 2000M and a swap partition of
> 128M.
>
> I went through the install process, made the system bootable and
> rebooted. I still get the white screen with the scrolling
> can't OPEN: can't OPEN:
>
> So now this is no longer a dual boot issue, but just a how do I boot
> debian :(
>
> Any advice on what else could be wrong would be much appreciated.
>
After an inspirational look at the boot-floppies todo list, I think I
found the answer. At
www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html
there are comments about your machine, the main one being that you
need System Disk to update your broken firmware. I'll add this to the
docs somewhere.
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*--v------ Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 For PowerPC -----v----*
| <http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks- |
| (pause for breath) powerpc/current/doc/install.en.html> |
| debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> |
| Chris Tillman tillman@azstarnet.com |
| May the Source be with you |
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