Re: PowerPC Debian CD's do not boot on my b&w G3 but Suse 7.0 does
On Sam, 2002-03-16 at 18:14, Otto Wyss wrote:
>
> As I said before none of the powerpc Debian Potato CD's nor a recent
> Debian network CD (I don't remember from where) and neither the woody CD
> from "trasno.net" boots on my blue&white G3 PowerMac. This is strange
> since there shouldn't be a problem. Finally I got a CD set of Suse 7.0
> powerpc and it nicely boots, showing the yaboot prompt and else. What's
> wrong with Debian CD's? Or what's the difference between Debian and
> Suse?
>
> When I want to start my Mac with a Debian CD (pressing the "C" key) the
> LED of the cd-drive flickers a few times and after a while the display
> is switched from a light gray to white. Nothing is ever written
> (visible) on the display. After a while the MacOS starts from the
> harddisk. There is never a yaboot prompt visible so I guess it isn't
> found on the CD and started.
>
> How could this problem be solved? What can I do to see what's going on?
> Is there a way to start yaboot from an OF prompt? Or can I inspect the
> CD from an OF prompt?
You can boot from the CD in OF with boot cd:,\\:tbxi .
> I've heard (without confirmation) that the early b&w G3 might have a
> problem with booting from a CD but at least Suse has found a way.
Well, maybe they use proprietary software, which we can't nor want to.
Anyway, I've asked Mr. Benson on IRC about this, and he advised to use
at least 2.2r5 CDs as earlier versions are known to have boot issues.
Furthermore he says to try and reset the PRAM (command option p r for 3
reboots on cold boot) and then try to boot the CDs again.
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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