booting with Beige G3 266?
Ok I again have a question for the experts on this list. I have never
come across a problem where the computer wouldn't boot. I just bought
my mother-in-law an old beige g3 266 so she could play some games, or
her kids could type on it, and whatnot. It does not have an internal
hard drive, so I thought until either I or her got one I would start off
a livecd. I have tried both debian and ubuntu, but neither one will
even start to boot. Is this an old world that would need a different
bootloader rather than the yaboot that's on the cd's? Just to see
whether this was a problem with the computer I popped in an OS 9 cd and
that started fine.
I rooted around a bit in the open firmware, but don't know how to do
much, except I did figure out that it's really old, like 2.4 I think it
said. This is rev a hardware, according to the box, and I am wondering
if anyone has had similar problems.
--Mike S
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