Re: Install problem, no boot after all

[Boris Bezlaj <boris@gajba.net>]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 12:44:01PM +0200, Tamas Nagy wrote:
> 
> It seems that the 'quik' bootloader doesn't work from Debian installer
> with PowerMac 4400/200. The other boot possibility would be a 'boot
> floppy' which after selection informs me that 'boot floppy' is not valid
> option...

You can (probably) boot from hfs formatted floppy. Just copy
vmlinux.coff to floppy and when booting enter into OpenFirmware:
0> boot fd:vmlinux.coff kernel_arguments...

Note that with recent 2.4 kernels there are some problems with COFF
images..

> Is there any way to boot the installed system from MacOS or from a
> custom made boot-floppy?

I use quik with great success..although i must admit it didn't work out
of the box after install. I have a PowerComputing box which is a bit
different than yours i guess..but not much.

My boot config:
Mac partition type.
/boot is on /dev/sda2(ext2 fs, 12MB). All files necessarry for boot
are placed inside:
System.map-2.2.22
System.map-2.4.21-pre7
boot
first.b
quik.conf
tt
System.map-2.4.19
blast
lost+found
second.b
zorg

/boot/quik.conf:
# quik -f -v -r /boot -C /quik.conf
# ^^^^^^ this is how i run quik..only need to run it once
# after adding new kernel image to /boot you anly need to modify
# quik.conf for the changes to take effect
#
timeout = 50
default = zorg
partition = 2
append = "video=imsttfb:vmode:12 devfs=nomount"

# 2.2.22
image = /tt
        root = /dev/sda3
        label = tt
        read-only
# 2.4.19
image = /blast
        root = /dev/sda3
        label = blast
        read-only
# 2.4.21-pre7 - testing swim3
image = /zorg
        root = /dev/sda3
        label = zorg
        read-only

NVRAM parameters:
little-endian?  false
real-mode?      false
auto-boot?      true
diag-switch?    false
fcode-debug?    false
oem-banner?     false
oem-logo?       false
use-nvramrc?    true
real-base       0x7f00000
real-size       0x100000
virt-base       0xffffffff
virt-size       0x100000
load-base       0x4000
pci-probe-list  0xffffffff
screen-#columns 0x64
screen-#rows    0x28
selftest-#megs  0x0
boot-device     scsi-int/sd@0:0
boot-file       
diag-device     fd:diags
diag-file       
input-device    kbd
output-device   /bandit@F4000000/IMS,tt128mb8
oem-banner      
oem-logo        
nvramrc         : slowboot begin
                ." Waiting for boot device.." cr d# 1000 ms
                boot-device ['] $boot catch drop
                key? until ;
                
boot-command    slowboot

Note that your settings _will_ be different since u have different hardware.

-- 

  Boris