Re: quik boots only manually
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 07:37:00AM -0700, toff wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 12:46:22PM +0200, Tobias Stefan Richter wrote:
> > quik will not autoboot on my PowerMac 4400, when left alone no timeout
> > will boot the machine automatically. I have to enter either a kernel
> > path or quik label name to start up. Just hitting enter I see this:
> >
> > Enter the kernel image name as [device:][partno]/path, where partno is a
> > number from 0 to 16. Instead of /path you can type [mm-nn] to specify a
> > range of disk blocks (512B)
> > boot:
> >
> > After entering something reasonable quik loads the specified image
> > (specified either by label name or path) just fine.
> > Setup looks like this:
> >
> > init-message="Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC (woody)"
> > default=Linux
> > timeout=100
> > root=/dev/hda2
> > partition=2
> > image=/boot/vmlinux-2.4.20-ben10
> > label=Linux
> > read-only
> > append="console=ttyS0,38400"
> > image=/boot/vmlinux-2.2.20-pmac
> > label=orig
> > read-only
> > append="console=ttyS0,38400"
>
> Everything looks reasonable, I wonder if there is some issue
> with whatever timing mechanism quik uses, on this machine.
> Even 0 does not work?
You know, when quik does its 'automatic' thing, it actually
types the letters on the screen L-i-n-u-x. Maybe it would
work when you switch your input and output devices to kbd
and screen.
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