RE: problems with woody quik on beige g3 300
FWIW, check out the netBSD site (www.netbsd.org/ports/macppc, I think). They have
a fairly long section on their installation isntructions for setting up OF on
older (pre 3.0) versions. Don't know if quik will co-operate, though...
--Aaron
-----Original Message-----
From: "Chris Tillman" <tillman@voicetrak.com>
Sent: 27 July 2002 02:07
To: "debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org" <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: problems with woody quik on beige g3 300
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 06:45:02PM +0100, Edd Dumbill wrote:
> So, I picked up a beige G3 300 from eBay. It has OpenFirmware 2.4, and
> has a Rage 64 Pro graphics chip.
>
> I'm trying to complete an install of woody on this machine. BootX works
> great, but I've had no luck with quik. Specifically, the symptoms are
> that it just sits there on reboot -- not even a monitor signal or any
> error message. Boot into OF, type 'boot', and I see 'unable to open
> ata/ata-disk@0:0'. (I've tried every conceivable combination for
> boot-device, including substituting 0:0 for 0:2, see below, and been
> through every value for load-base).
Many people find that quik won't work on the beige G3s, and end up
using BootX.
>
> The machine's configuration is that there's a fresh disk on ide0's
> master, and the MacOS 9.2 disk is slave on ide1. MacOS will boot fine.
>
> I ran SystemDisk in order to set up booting to OF, as per instructions.
>
> I've spent a significant amount of time searching this list and other
> sources and can't find anything that successfully tells me the answer.
> If anyone has beaten this particular problem, I'd love to hear from
> them.
>
> Here's the partitioning of the disk:
>
> /dev/hda
> # type name length
> base ( size ) system
> dump: name /dev/hda len 8
> /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @
> 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map
> /dev/hda2 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 12582912 @
> 64 ( 6.0G) Linux native
> /dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 var 8388608 @
> 12582976 ( 4.0G) Linux native
> /dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 901120 @
> 20971584 (440.0M) Linux swap
> /dev/hda5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 other 134217728 @
> 21872704 ( 64.0G) Linux native
> /dev/hda6 Apple_Free Extra 211056 @
> 156090432 (103.1M) Free space
>
> Running quik -vf gives;
>
> # quik -vf
> Second-stage loader is on /dev/hda2
> Config file is on partition 2
> Writing first-stage QUIK boot block to /dev/hda2
> Making /dev/hda2 bootable (map entry 2)
> Writing block table to boot block on /dev/hda2
>
> thanks
>
> -- Edd (currently stuck with BootX but doesn't want to be)
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