Re: Howto boot iMac from floppy?
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 10:59:28PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> Synopsis: iMac Rev. B CD-ROM won't boot sarge netinst. How to create
> iMac yaboot boot flopp(y|ies)?
please try those :
http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/
Also, there is some stuff about this in the old woody documentation :
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-create-floppy
> For whatever reason, the machine I'm banging my head on won't boot
> from the sarge netinst CD. This is the second CD I've tried that's
> failed. This one, I burned myself at speed=2. I suspect something's
> wrong with this old iMac's CD drive. Either that, or I missed
> something important in my reading up on this. No amount of booting
> holding down the "C" key produces any sort of recognition of the CD
> from this thing.
This should be a new world though, so my above comments probably will not be
usefull though :/
> So, given I have the sarge powerpc netinst CD, what do I do to boot
> the thing from floppies (I have a Superdisk/LS-120 drive)? My Dell
> laptop can read and write hfs floppies. What from the CD do I copy to
> the floppy, and where on the floppy do I copy it? Is this sufficient
> (this is an hfs formatted floppy, mounted on x86 Linux):
>
> (0) keeling /cdrom/install/powerpc_ all /floppy
> total 153
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 12 Aug 18 22:19 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 1024 Feb 21 22:45 ../
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 753 Aug 18 22:19 boot.msg*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Aug 18 22:14 Desktop*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Aug 18 22:13 DesktopPrinters DB*
> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 12 Aug 18 22:19 .finderinfo/
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1855 Aug 18 22:19 ofboot.b*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Aug 18 22:14 OpenFolderListDF:0d*
> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 12 Aug 18 22:19 .resource/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 300 Aug 18 22:19 .rootinfo
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 145828 Aug 18 22:19 yaboot*
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2578 Aug 18 22:19 yaboot.conf*
>
> On the Mac, am I supposed to copy any of that into the Mac's HD?
> Where?
>
> Where on the netinst CD are the boot-floppy images? I see:
>
> (0) keeling /cdrom/install/powerpc_ all
> total 16655
> dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 Aug 5 13:45 ./
> dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 2048 Aug 11 15:47 ../
> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Aug 5 13:45 2.4/
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3518944 Aug 3 17:42 initrd.gz
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1503 Aug 3 17:42 initrd.list
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3883776 Aug 3 17:44 vmlinux
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4855390 Aug 3 17:59 vmlinuz-chrp.initrd
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4787714 Aug 3 17:59 vmlinuz-prep.initrd
>
> None of those will fit on a 1.44Mb floppy.
Indeed. Floppy booting is not supported on powerpc except in the oldworld and
perhaps prep case. You would have to extract the kernel from the miboot floppy
image though, maybe i should do so or something. The above kernels should fit
just well on a LS/120 floppy though. You would only need the initrd.gz, the
vmlinux and the yaboot.conf, and probably install yaboot on it or something.
> Sorry if this sounds numbskulled. I just haven't had a lot of success
> finding stuff that explained how yaboot+iMac+netinst+floppies work.
you know, new world pmacs and floppies, ...
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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