On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 17:47:31 -0800, Dylan Barrie composed: > I'm setting up my UMAX J700 with a G3/300 upgrade card to be a small > CVS/web server, but I am having trouble getting Quik to work properly > on it. I have Debian installed and working, but I am forced to start > up from the MacOS and then use BootX to start up Linux when I want to > use it. I've been trying different things in Open Firmware, but > nothing has been working. > > These are the settings I use for OF: > > input-device kbd > output-device /bandit@F2000000/3Dfx,Voodoo3@E (I'm using a V3 card) > boot-device scsi-int/sd@0:0 (the Linux HD is id 0 on the internal chain) did you try the output of nvsetenv boot-device "$(ofpath /dev/sda)0"? ofpath is in yaboot, but has that handy little tool called ofpath. then you can check in the nvsetenv output. on mine it fills out to /bandit/gc/mesh/sd@0:0. i've had problems in the past using scsi-int/ as an OF path, but not the full real path for the boot-devices. > boot-file /boot/vmlinux-2.2.20-pmac root=/dev/sda2 > boot-command begin ['] boot catch 1000 ms cr again boo-file can usually be set to Linux (assuming your default=* is Linux); though some ppl have had success with what you have there. > But when I try to boot (by typing boot), I get "CLAIM failed." I've "CLAIM failed." is usually as a result of not finding something to boot (IIRC). > tried other boot-device settings, but everything I have tried has given > me the "DEFAULT CATCH" error. DEFAULT CATCH means it's too long, or there's some other thing OF isnt accepting. > I've scoured the net looking for someone who has solved this problem, > but have been unable to find anything. http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html - i think i may mirror that/those pages. > If anyone has any ideas at all, I would love to hear them. see above ;) > Thanks in advance, you're welcome :). simon > Dylan Barrie > Postpose > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- ._________________________________________________________________. |UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are.| |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | ,''`. http://www.debian.org/ | http://simonraven.nuit.ca/ | | : :' : Debian GNU/Linux | http://www.nuit.ca/ | | `. `' | simon-AT-nuit.ca | | `- | PGP key: 3744 810B 50F5 187E | :-----------------------------------------------------------------:
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