On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 11:13:05PM -0400, Matt Kraai wrote: > It plays the startup sound, and I can hear the hard drive spin up for a > second or two. But the screen stays black the whole time. If I do a hard > boot, it goes to the screen with the disk and the flashing question mark. > At least it displays something.
If you have a serial cable available, you could try to see how far into booting it gets; presumably you wouldn't see anything, though, if quik is the problem. > I first used the default quik.conf file, then I backed that up and used > the quikconfig program to try to make linux bootable, and then tried to > manually edit it to make it boot to MacOS. > > If it is the Open Firmware, do you know how to fix that (or can you point > me to someone who might)? Well, I would recommend looking through the FAQ-O-MATIC. I don't remember the address, but the archive for this list (http://www.debian.org/ has a link to that) should contain the address. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
