On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 07:08:51PM +0200, Michael Lyngb?l wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble booting Linux on my Power Macintosh 7200/75. > > Installation of Debian 2.2 went fine (booting MacOS on an external disk > and using BootX to boot into Linux works fine). > > Right now I'm not able to boot directly into Linux - I have to boot > MacOS and then use BootX to get Linux running. > > Read quik(8), quik.conf(5) - no success. /etc/quik.conf looks like this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /etc/quik.conf > root=/dev/sda2 > timeout=100 > image=/vmlinuz > label=linux > read-only > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# quik -v > Second-stage loader is on /dev/sda2 > Config file is on partition 2 > Writing first-stage QUIK boot block to /dev/sda2 > Making /dev/sda2 bootable (map entry 2) > Writing block table to boot block on /dev/sda2 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# > > Still not able to boot directly into Linux. > > I've haven't figured out how booting of a PowerPC works? I suppose I'm > missing something?
I'm guessing you need to use nvsetenv. You'll have to set boot-device; probably to "scsi-int/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0" or something like that. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
