Re: Installation problems on StarMax
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 02:10:47PM -0700, Thanasis Kinias wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm installing Woody on a StarMax 5000/300. It's got an IDE HDD and
> SCSI CD-ROM and ZIP. It will not boot from the CD-ROM drive, so I have
> to use floppies to install. I've gotten as far as ``Make System
> Bootable''; unfortunately, after the installer puts Quik on the system,
> it is not bootable.
(Free) bootable CDs are not possible for OldWorlds.
> As I understand it, StarMaxes are considered NewWorld machines -- they
> should use Yaboot then, not Quik, right? (I'm really not very familiar
> with PowerPC hardware, having only done one installation on an iMac
> before.) There is no boot floppy for NewWorld that I can find, only a
> rescue.bin which is not bootable (shouldn't it be though?).
No, they are OldWorld. NewWorlds don't have built-in floppy drives.
> I assume it is trying to install a useless Quik because I used the
> powermac instead of new-powermac, but I couldn't find another option.
The difference between those two is the kernel, not the machine type.
You can boot new-powermac on an OldWorld, but the kernel (2.4) is too
big for a floppy; you have to use BootX.
> If I am correct that this box needs Yaboot and not Quik, how do I get
> that installed? ATM the box is not bootable except via floppy, and the
> only bootable floppy I has just dumps me right to the installation.
quik should work, but it often times has quirks. Do you get a boot:
prompt? or a message from OpenFirmware? or does the kernel die after
being booted? You might just need to pass video=ofonly to the kernel
or something.
The install manual gives some key combinations to try in order
to boot into OpenFirmware and see what's going on.
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