Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 20:11:21 -0500, Derrik Pates composed:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:22:56PM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote:
> > Well, that 'cannot' is really 'should not' since Linux doesn't need
> > them at all, but the MacOS does. If you boot this thing using miboot
> > or BootX, you still need the drivers, but if you use quik or yaboot,
> > then they're extraneous unless you want the MacOS to be able to use
> > the disk.
> He's got a 7100. It's a NuBus system. It doesn't have OpenFirmware, and
> won't work with either quik or yaboot. MKLinux Booter and BootX both
> start from MacOS, and miBoot loads by way of the MacOS ROM that's burned
> into chips on the logic board.
oops, hadn't realised it was a 7*1*00, heh. i'm not sure, but don't they
boot like the m68k b0xen? i.e., couldn't he use a small macos partition
and use penguin19 to boot from? or can he use something a little more
modern, like bootx?
simon
> Personally, I think this poor guy's gonna have a hell of a time.
> Debian's something of a "hardcore" distro to begin with - and he's
> installing it on a system that Debian doesn't officially support.
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> Derrik Pates
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> dpates@voxel.net
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