Re: Boot Problem -- Firmware?
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Chris Tillman wrote:
> >From AppleSpec, it looks like the difference between the two machines
> is that the 150 is a 604 while the 180 is a 604e. I don't think this
> should make a difference to Linux, but I just thought I'd mention it.
Well, it might make a difference. The north bridge would have to be
modified to support the new processor and this might be causing the
problem I've been seeing.
> The stable and testing floppy images have different boot arguments (one
> has video=ofonly while the other doesn't). Since neither works, I guess
> it's not worthwhile to try changing the arguments. However, if you
> need to change them, there is a script for doing so at
>
> cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/powerpc-specials/miBoot/patch-floppy-image.pl
>
> Try BootX to boot the installer from MacOS (set the ramdisk to root.bin).
> You can turn on the boot error log, maybe it will give a better clue what
> is going on.
BootX mostly is failing miserably. The only version that works for me is
version 1.1.3, which only produces a black screen when attempting to boot
into linux. All other versions produce a bomb citing an untrapped error.
:::sigh:::
Brian
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