On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 04:53:39PM +0100, Frédéric Massot wrote: [...] > I did not succeed in booting it on a diskette or a cdrom of Debian > installation (The firmware is patched with SystemDisk). What floppy images did you try? > I had to install Mac OS 9 on a small partition and from there install > Debian Woody with BootX on other partition (sda2). I could update the > system to Sarge but the kernel is a 2.2.20-pmac of the Woody installer. > > My problem is to boot directly under Linux, I configured quik, modified > Open Firmware with : > - boot-device scsi/sd@0:2 > - boot-file /boot/vmlinux root=/dev/sda2 > - load-base 4000 > And load-base 60000, 100000 and then 1000000 > > At the boot the system stops with this message : > > DEFAULT CATCH!, code=FFF00700 at %SRR0: FF862AB4 %SRR1: 00081070 Is this an error from OF, or from the linux kernel? (Looks like an OF error) Is load-base 4000 the default setting? Otherwise, reset to the default setting and try again (my Performa 5400 boots nicely with quik and I only need to set the boot-device parameter). -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad?
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