iMac266, OSX Man82ppc installation won't boot

[Damon Garn]

I've just attempted a Mandrake 8.2ppc install on my iMac266, which is already running MacOSX. The expert install sequence appeared to succeed correctly (it even reported a successful install). Upon reboot I get only a grey screen - no boot loader prompt. The machine sits idle from that point, forcing a manual restart.   Attempted the following: 1. suggested fix of cmd-opt-o-f and set the OF option to the designated partition (*) with 'setenv boot-device hd:8;\\tbxi' then 'shut-down'   2. followed the documentation suggestion of resetting the pram with cmd-opt-p-r and that allows a successful OSX boot. Apple's Disk Utility continues to show the two 7.8GB OSX partitions I had as well as a greyed-out "bootstrap" partition (I suspect this to be the "blessed partition"). No Linux partitions show (is it normal for them not to show?). I requested /boot at 45MB, / at 10GB, /swap at 400MB and it claimed to be building them. I requested ext3 for the / partition, if it matters.   3. Subscribed to this list. :)   No funky hardware - all is stock except for the larger hard drive I installed a year or so ago, which I had left with free space so I could try this very thing.   Damon Garn