Re: Booting Debian on oldworld G3
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:03:06PM +0000, Wayne Pascoe wrote:
> Well,
>
> It finally all works. Thanks to Chris and others who mailed me
> suggestions. The only thing not working is the timeout so that it
> boots automagically after x seconds, but I don't care about that right
> now.
Cool! I shoulda read a couple more messages ahead in my mailer.
> Things to note on oldworld machines :
>
> Always run system disk first. This may solve many of your problems. I
> will be providing a dd'd image of an OS8 boot disk and a dd'd image of
> a disk with SystemDisk on it in the next few days for those of us with
> no bootable OS9. < Where should I put this for people to access ? >
I don't think we can distribute that, it's not free software.
> Make sure that your Linux partition appears before any Mac partitions
> in the partition map.
>
> Make sure that all partitions that you wish to boot from are within
> the first 8gig on beige G3's
Was this one of your problems? Or did you find a pointer somewhere
that this is an issue?
> If you have problems with quik, do the following :
>
> - boot off of the install disks.
>
> - When you get the menu, hit alt-f2 and then enter to start a shell
>
> - mount your root filesystem (eg mount /dev/hda6 /mnt)
>
> - edit quik.conf and make sure that it looks something like the
> following :
>
> init-message="Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC (woody)"
> default=Linux
> timeout=100
> root=/dev/hda6
> partition=6
>
> image=/boot/vmlinux-2.2.19-pmac
> label=Linux
> read-only
>
> The partition=6 bit in this is important. This should probably
^H^H^H^H^H^H^H definitely
match
> whatever partition you have (eg 6 for hda6, 3 for hda3)
>
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