Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 23:44:58 -0500, Derrik Pates composed:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:36:06AM +0000, simon@nuit.ca wrote:
> 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.)
yeh no kidding. and an OldWorld PCI box is somewhat in bewteen i guess:
more b0rken OF, and yaboot doesn't work on them (yet). and i can quite
understand the rather abrupt change of interface/OS coming straight from
macos into debian, heh (the ride's been great so far :D).
simon
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