Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot
At 1:03 pm -0500 15/1/03, Marco Scoffier wrote:
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,
You're welcome ;-)
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.
I'd be happy to get a link onto sourceforge (not sure how to go about
it - I'll investigate when I've got time). I had trouble with the
older kernels too.
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 need to check this (again as time permits) - I don't recall any
problems; it was a few months ago now. In the meantime, I'll
incorporate your comments in my notes. I suggest you post your
comments on the gzipped issue to the Nubus list
<linuxppc-nubus@lists.linuxppc.org> which Etsushi Kato uses.
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
The partition set-up in my notes puts Root first but you're right,
perhaps it needs emphasis.
I had the same issue as you concerning dhcp. Potato installer found
dhcp, woody had to be configured manually.
It's some comfort to know you had the same problem ;-)...... Do you
want to report it as a bug?
Thanks again for the info
Incidentally, have you managed to read floppies at all? I haven't
spent much time on it 'cos I don't need floppy access; I couldn't get
it to work under potato either. Someone suggested it may be related
to SWIM II v SWIM III - I can't remember the details.
Regards
Clive
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