Re: Problems installing quik on Powermac 7200/90
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Chris Tillman wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:11:29PM +0100, Mark Baumann wrote:
> > Hallo!
> > I have some Problems installing quik on my Powermac.
> > It was working already with bootx but i wanted to save some space and
> > tried with quik. I read the archive of the last few months . But I am not
> > able to get it working. OK here are the main steps i have taken:
> > 1. Installed Debian Potato
> > 2. mounted my root partition and chrooted to it (mount /dev/sda2 /target;
> > chroot target;
> > 3. mounted proc under target/proc (new root filesystem)
> > 4. changed quik.conf to boot from /boot/vmlinux-2.2.19; no symlink!
>
> This was the chroot /etc/quik.conf, right?
>
Yes
> > 5. ofpath /dev/sda gave me /bandit/gc/53c93/sd@0:
> > 6 nvsetenv boot-device /bandit/gc/53c93/sd@0:0
>
> This seems not unreasonable; I have had good luck with quik using the
> OF aliases also, such as scsi/sd@0:0 or scsi-int/sd@0:0
>
> Try also
>
> nvsetenv boot-file Linux <-- the name of the label in quik.conf
>
This worked. It boots (2 beeps) but only one time if I want to reboot it,
its dead again (1 beep)
> or
>
> nvsetenv boot-file scsi/sd@0:0/boot/vmlinux-2.2.19
>
> Since you don't have any video, maybe quik is actually loading but the
> default image isn't working, and you can't see it.
>
> Also, you can see what OF is doing if you hook up another computer to
> the modem port and start a ZTerm or similar comm program at 38400 8,N,1.
>
> > 7. quik -f -v seems to be ok
> Also, what partition does it install to? Try using that number instead
> of 0 after the colon, e.g. scsi/sd@0:5
>
2. partition
>
Best regards
Mark
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