Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

[Marco Scoffier <marco4linux@earthlink.net>]

> I put my installation notes up at 
> http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk/nubus_woody.htm
>
> > >  You should also look at:
> >  > http://fungus.ucdavis.edu/~dylan/index.php
> > >  I've successfully installed woody on an 8100/80 using the 2.4.19 kernel

Thank you for this information,

I have been trying with the older 2.4.5 Mach Kernel images found at:
http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/ and here
http://www.symsys.com/~ingram/hardware/powermac/potato-install.html
but the macfdisk seems very broken.  I have been getting very unstable 
systems. 
Perhaps there is a way of getting a link to your notes on 
nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net
as that site tends to google much higher than yours.

A few comments (which could make this even easier for the next person)

I had to download Etsushi Kato's mach_kernels from an ftp client. The links on 
your page are not being accepted by his ftp server (I tried from galeon and 
mozilla perhaps this is my fault, but I am pretty sure I have downloaded from 
other ftp sites).  This should be mentioned in your notes or perhaps, the 
images could be put on another server, or we could contact him (my wife is 
japanese perhaps she could translate).

I had to gunzip Etsushi Kato's mach_kernel on my linux box before copying it 
to the old mac.  My old mac doesn't have  the ability to gunzip and there is 
only a few hundred K gained in the compression.  A non-gzipped image could be 
one less step.

I had to place the root partition 1st (before the swap partition) or the swap 
was not recognized as swap.  I read this somewhere, but again this took 
several tries, before I got it right

I had the same issue as you concerning dhcp.  Potato installer found dhcp, 
woody had to be configured manually.

Thanks again for the info