Re: booting debian on a powerbook g3 wallstreet after first installation

[tarak <tblah@web.de>]

fyi... forgot to send the answer mail to chris to he list...

tarak wrote:

> Chris Tillman wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 10:55:56PM +0100, tarak wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > Chris Tillman wrote:
> > >
> > >   
> > >
> > > > On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 01:42:16PM +0100, tarak wrote:
> > > >
> > > >     
> >
> > ...
> >
> >  
> >
> > > done that... screen still stays black.
> > >
> > > here's a little list of what i did:
> > > - rebooted with the installation disks
> > > - chrooted to /target
> > > - mounted proc-filesystem
> > > - brought up network with ifup
> > > - downloaded the patched first.b-file for g3's as linked on section 
> > > 8.1 in the
> > > installation manual with wget
> > > - backuped the old one and placed the new one to its apropriate place
> > > - run quik -v at the shell
> > > - got back to dbootstrap and made system bootable
> > >   
> >
> >
> > This re-runs quik. Should be all right, though,
> > since you have the new first.b in place.
> >
> >  
> >
> > > - got back to the chroot-shell to change nvsetenv-settings to:
> > > boot-device /pci/mac-io/ata0/ata-disk@0:2
> > > (my root device is indicated as /dev/hda2 by dbootstrap)
> > >   
> >
> >
> > This all sounds good. Do you get the same path with
> > ofpath /dev/hda2
> >  
> correct. /dev/hda1 is the partition-table following mac-fdisk. hda3 is 
> swap-space.
>
> >  
> >
> > > boot-file "/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19-powerpc root=/dev/hda2"
> > > - rebooted using dbootstrap
> > >   
> >
> >
> > vmlinuz? I'm pretty sure the powerpc kernels are named vmlinux-xxx .
> > This should be in the quik.conf as image= , then for your boot-file
> > use Linux (or whatever your image label is).
> sorry, typo... its name is vmlinux-2.2.20-*ppc (?).  set boot-file to 
> Linux.
>
> >  
> >
> > > i wonder if i must append something as kernelparameter to the 
> > > quik.conf-file.
> > > what about the video-option? needed here? there is no append line at 
> > > all in
> > > the conf-file of quik.
> > >   
> >
> >
> > For appends, you use append="video=ofonly" for example. I need that
> > option on my machine. I noticed you put the root= in a boot paramater,
> > that should be in quik.conf (although that shouldn't be a problem).
> did add the video-parameter to the quik.conf-file, found the root= 
> parameter to be already there.
>
> >  
> >
> > > another thing that I found out reading through the netbsd-pages: it 
> > > seems that one
> > > can only boot hfs-filesystems, iso's from cd-rom's, hfs-floppy's and 
> > > something called
> > > partition-zero from OpenFirmware 2.0.1. i wonder if that might be 
> > > the problem, too?
> > >   
> >
> >
> > partition-zero is the strategy quik uses: better known as the boot 
> > block.
> >
> >  
> >
> > > here's the url:
> > > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6/macppc/INSTALL.html#Available%20Boot%20Media
> > >
> > > dbootstrap has created ext2fs on /dev/hda2. i thought that if i 
> > > would place everything
> > > on an hfs-filesystem it would boot correctly? because it does boot 
> > > the floppy. kind of
> > > simulation of a startdisk on the hard-disk? just an idea...
> > >   
> >
> >
> > That shouldn't be necessary. The boot block is written to the
> > disk, not the file system.
> >
> > I don't think you can make a root partition on an hfs file system,
> > either; though I've never tried it.
> >
> >  
> rebooted then but it still stays black. I need to try this at the 
> OF-prompt to see what it says.
> i'll let you know, but need to phone with a lady first... till later  ;-)
>
> tarak