Thanks again for the help. I'm up and running. The CMOS battery fixed my boot problems, and I did have to use the quik "quirk" settings for my powerpc 6400 (load-base=100000, output-device=ttya).
I also was also able to boot the 2.4 debian installer floppies from daily builds. It's been an interesting transition getting used to mac hardware compared to x86. I did have one idea: if you can boot a coff image from an hfs partition, couldn't you have an hfs /boot partition on the harddrive and boot directly from open firmware? If I understand this correctly, quik wouldn't be needed. Wade On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 10:53 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 01:45:35AM -0700, Wade Berrier wrote: > > Thanks for all the feedback I've gotten from y'all. > > > > Here's a quick log about my situation: > > > > First, started out as I installed woody from the boot-floppy-hfs.img, > > install went ok. On reboot, I get claim failed. > > > > I've tried all the settings from the quik quirks page without any > > success. (http://www.penguinppc.org/bootloaders/quik/quirks.php) > > > > I can boot a 2.4 coff kernel (pulled from kernel-image packages from the > > debian main repositories)... but the kernel doesn't recognize my > > harddrive partitions (i/o error, unable to read partiton on hda). > > You have to use the 2.6 coff image with the builtin initrd. I gave you the > path to it, didn't i ? > > > I tried a 2.2 .coff from unstable and the last thing it says on the > > screen after boot is initializing valkyrie. I tried some video= > > settings with no luck. > > > > I tried the miboot boot images from debian installer > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/miboot/ , and this also didn't > > work. > > Please use the daily builds, these are just older stuff. > > > A penguin came up, but it ended up with a red X through the penguin. > > Ok. > > > Maybe I will end up having to compile my own 2.6 .coff kernel, and tweak > > it until it works? > > Yes, and now. Please notice that you can take the normal 2.6 kernel, and use > mkvmlinuz -a coff to generate the coff image, but since it will not have any > initrd, this will not necessarily work. > > Stay with the daily builds, instead of going to do some exotic and unssuported > stuff. If there is a problem with the daily builds, let's fix it. Or the next > guy along the line will have exactly the same problems. > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
