On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 05:58:50AM -0700, Al Smith wrote: > Restarting from scratch... > > I reset all the pram to factory defaults (Cmd+Opt+p+r > ) before starting the install. > > I completely repartitioned the drive. > 64k for the partion map (hda1 by default) > / has remainder of 1.2g drive (hda2) > 64m for swap. (hda3) > > Booting from floopy, running the installer to accept > most default options. I had completed all the steps > (including a manual network driver) and after making > the system bootable, I went to the (Alt+F2) command > line. > > Used nvsetenv to alter input/output-device (one has to > wonder why these commands are not part of the install > or at the very least referenced in the instructions - > I had to get to 2 web sites and not until I had done > this a dozen times did I find nvsetenv over bootint to > OF and using setenv after the install!)
On many of the early Macs, changes to input/output device do not survive a reboot. And, it's difficult to document its usage since there are so many variations in Mac hardware. NetBSD has done an admirable job of trying to collect all the variations; but their install depends on a person getting into OF first, so they have no need to talk about nvsetenv, if indeed it exists in NetBSD Linux. > I left load-base at the original (40000 i believe). > penguinPPC has notes that this may need to be set to > 100000 which is why I had altered it to begin with. > netBSD has notes to set it to 600000. > > Still get the CLAIM failed on boot. > Where to go next... > Is there a minimum RAM requirement for this system/OS? For woody you will need 12M; but you're not there yet. quik, I believe, might assume 8M is available. > Should I alter the amount of swap made available? Not affecting this issue > does the IDE drive need to be replaced with a SCSI > drive as the boot drive? Well, if you have an external SCSI, it would at least be something different to try. But it should work on either. > Can anyone reference the "CLAIM failed" error message > in the source code to explain when this wil be > returned? CLAIM Failed is sorta like a Dr Watson message from OF. It just means that it couldn't allocate memory for an operation, and there could be any number of reasons. > Has anyone ever installed a 6360 and lived to tell > about it? As I mentioned before, try searching the list archives for Performa. You can't search for 6360 because the indexing software doesn't index numbers. But when I searched debian-powerpc for the last five quarters on performa, I got around 60 hits, and just leafing through them it looked like about half involved the 6360 specifically. I had verified there were hits before when I suggested it, but it's up to you to go through them and see if there's something pertinent. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual> | | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To Have, Give All to All (ACIM) | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
