On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:58:52AM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > >>>On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 14:55 +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >>>>0 > boot ide1/disk@0:0,\install\powerpc\vmlinux > >>>> > >>>>OF says 'loader: unrecognized client program format' > >>> > >>>Oldworld... it might be able to boot from CD a coff file... do the CD > >>>contains the vmlinux.coff image ? > > Strange!... > 0 > boot ide1/disk@0:0,\install\powerpc\vmlinuz-coff.initrd > unable to open: ide1/disk@0:0,\install\powerpc\vmlinuz-coff.initrd ok > > grrr! > > 0 > dev ide1/disk@0:0 > can't find device ok > > aaaaaaaaaaaa! What did I do?! Did I messed up the OF? I reseted it > Alt-Command-P-R but no way! :'( > > I can have 8 machines like that, do I have to throw them away?.. > YEAH! Try installing with floppies? http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/sid/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/boot.img http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/sid/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/root.img In case quik turns out not to work on those beige G3 (seems it does work on some but not on others), you could use miboot for booting into the installed system too. If miboot works OK, on that model (on my perfomas the cpu will run at 1/10th speed when booted by miboot), I could make you a miboot boot-floppy to boot into the installed system -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> GnuPG key: 1024D/7050614E Fingerprint: 1408 C8D5 1E7D 4C9C C27E 014F 7C2C 872A 7050 614E Learn about secure email at http://www.gnupg.org
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