quik... quik... quik... [was: Re: [OpenFirmware2.4] Can't boot on cdrom]
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Sven Luther wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:10:27AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
>>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
These ones doesn't work at the moment, it's impossible to load the
net/cd-driver floppies, but I did try to install Sarge AND Woody and
they both fail with quik. Reading around on the internet, it seems I
have THE machine that causes problems! G3 beige with Open Firmware 2.4.
So, with Woody AND Sarge (booting with BootX), I could install a
complete Debian installation but it's impossible to boot on the new
installation!
>>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.
So booting from a floppy?
>>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
Great! the root partition is /dev/hda2 and the image is located in
/boot/vmlinux I think (of course I can not boot anymore so I don't know
the exact image name! 2.6.8 or something!).
> Maybe we could make have miboot to be listed in mkvmlinuz's bootloader, and
> have code in /etc/kernel/postinst.d to automatically create the miboot floppy
> for you on installs.
That could be a solution. If I understand, you mean I have to put a
floppy in the G3 to boot and that's all. So the boot would be 'automatic'?
> Now that miboot is being freed, this would be a neat solution.
>
> Any volunteer to recode the boot sector based on the information Piotr
> provided ?
The boot sector written on the harddrive? Do you have an url to learn
how to do that, how to write the program? I'm ready to learn everything
if I could boot the f#@ G3?!
Thanks
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