Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:36:06AM +0000, simon@nuit.ca wrote:
> > 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?
As I said in my e-mail previously, he has a choice of 3 boot loaders for
Linux on a NuBus system, though not all bootloaders work equally well on
all NuBus systems (as I noted, the 6100 _only_ likes MKLinux Booter,
hangs with all others). Don't know about if BootX or miBoot will work on
the 7100, but I'd go for BootX for simplicity - Apple's MKLinux booter
is not a model of "happy-fun-pointy-clicky" GUI-ness, in fact most of
its settings are in a _text file_. This didn't bother me, but this poor
guy barely knows Linux at all - getting a distro like Debian on a
well-supported NewWorld can be occasionally trying. Installing it on a
NuBus system can be a bear. (Besides the fact that the kernel is at best
sporadically maintained for them.)
--
Derrik Pates
dpates@dsdk12.net
dpates@voxel.net
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