Re: g3 beige won't boot off of boot floppy
On 23-jan-2006, at 0:01, Ben Wehrspann wrote:
Hello all-
Recently I aquired a g3 (beige) power mac it has Open Firmware 2.4
I used system disk to patch the OF though I must admit I don't know
if it actually did anything when I hit the save button. ie it
didnt give me any indication of progress etc.
From my reading the only way to boot this mac is through the
floppies as it is still *Old World*.
I downloaded the boot.img file and ofonlyboot.img file from both
the floppy and floppy-2.4 directories (I don't know what the
difference is) at the following site:
http://archive.progeny.com/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-
powerpc/current//images/powerpc/
I created 4 floppies from the MakeDebianFloppy.sit utility. ie [1]
boot.img & [2]ofonlyboot.img from the floppy directory / [3]
boot.img & [4]ofonlyboot.img from the floppy-2.4 directory
I have inserted each of these floppies at startup and each time the
computer ejects the floppy. Is there some way to make this
computer accept those bootup disks? Is there a command I can enter
into the OF prompt to force a floppy boot? According what I've
read I should be able to do this right?
Or do I need to partition with the Mac disk utility and somehow use
quik to boot into an installer like you would on a nubus machine?
If this is a the case could you point me in the direction of a step
by step for this sort of operation.
Thanks in advance,
Ben
I've been having problems with the floppy images to, I never could
get them to work. Booting from harddisk using bootx always works tho:
http://www.us.debian.org/releases/sarge/powerpc/ch04s05.html.en#files-
oldworld
The info in this link is somewhat dated; the files you need for bootX
to use are "vmlinux" and "initrd.gz. You can probably copy them from
an installer CD. During the install you can select to install quik so
bootx won't be needed anymore and can be wiped out during the install.
Peter
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