Re: Booting into Linux on OldWorld Mac
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 01:57:54AM -0500, Michael Dartt wrote:
> (Machine in question: Performa 6400, OF v. 2.0)
>
> (No luck on all the suggestions from Chris' last post on this thread, I'm
> afraid.)
>
> Well, I tried booting from the installation boot floppy, reinitializing the
> partition table (which got rid of the Apple ATA driver entries that had been
> taking up hda2 and hda3), formatting the hard disk again, and reinstalling the
> base system. I also tried something from Wayne Pascoe's ordeal
> (http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2001/debian-powerpc-
> 200112/msg00258.html)--rebooting via the boot floppy, then going to the 2nd
> terminal and:
>
> # mount /dev/hda2 /mnt
> # chroot /mnt /bin/ash
> chroot: cannot execute /bin/ash: No such file or directory
> # chroot /mnt /bin/sh
> sh-2.05a# quik
> Could not open /proc/cpuinfo!
>
> Thing is, the terminal opening text says I'm using ash, and an ls shows it
> sitting right there in /bin, all nice and executable by everyone (whoami
> returns "root", btw). So, it looks like...
Oh, you're trying to run quik... My approach to manually running quik
in the installer shell might have some weaknesses I'm not aware of, but
IWFM: I just
cp /target/etc/quik.conf /etc/quik.conf
quik -v
(making sure the /target/etc/quik.conf is the way I want it first).
> > If none of those work, you're probably stuck with BootX. See
> > instructions on that, at least for booting the installer, in this list
> > the last few days.
>
> I looked at the archives and did a search through the last three months of
> posts, but I didn't find anything on booting the installer with BootX (other
> than making sure I check that the kernel is in an acceptable format for the
> program). A couple of questions about BootX and Debian:
Apologies, that wasn't the powerpc list but debian-boot (See bugs
123571, 123623).
> * The installation disks I have install 2.2.19, but I've only found 2.2.20 in a
> precompiled version out there (admittedly, I could probably look harder, but
> I'm doing my surfing from work...). Is this likely to work okay with the
> modules on the installation disks?
Precompiled prepackaged kernels are in packages like
kernel-image-xxx. You can browse them at
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/k/ or, once you have Debian
installed, apt-cache search kernel-image. These packages install the
associated modules too, you might need to load a particular module
with modconf.
> * How will having my kernel sitting on a MacOS partition affect apt-get? Will
> I basically be out of luck module- and kernel-wise?
The kernel is loaded into memory at boot, AFAIK, and the disk version
from which it's loaded isn't accessed while it's running.
> Thanks again to everyone for helping me out with this. I really appreciate
> it. :) (Btw, is there anything I can do to return the favor besides answering
> questions on the list, which I'm plainly too new to PPC Linux to do?)
<wicked grin> "Got another sucke^H^H^H^H^Hrecruit interested in
volunteering, Hank! Should I send him up now?" </wicked grin>
Oh, yes, actually there's a lot to be done. I was completely new to
Unix, Linux, and Debian last April, and am just starting to know how
to ask the right questions. But basically there's a lot of interest in
making Debian more accessible to the average joe, despite the general
tone of the mailing lists and developers' impatience with newbies.
There's code development and documentation development. Basically if
you know something about something, jump in and try to figure out how
to make it better. If you see something that doesn't work the way it
should, submit a bug (just be sure you understand how it's supposed to
work first).
Being too new to answer questions means you're new enough to ask them,
and that can also be valuable. Many folks have been around so long
they've forgotten what it was like to be truly clueless; yet I think
an ideal operating system would be accessible to clueless folks
also. I think our documentation system leaves a lot to be desired, and
I'm working on documentation itself and trying to figure out how it
could be more accessible. But there's been a lot of work done already,
so I'm trying to cover that ground first.
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