On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 08:56:19PM -0800, Dean Suhr wrote: > Hi All, > > I am a Mac power user, but at novice at Linux. I have a buddy who is > helping, but he's never set up a PPC. We can't seem to get the hard drive > to be bootable. We followed the new world YaBoot procedure to no avail. I > have the hard disk fully devoted to Linux, with the Apple_Bootstrap as the > first partition - it is not mounted.
your machine is OldWorld which is not compatible with yaboot, you need
to use quik instead.
> I was unable to validate that my hardware is fully compatible - at this
> point I'm wondering if this might be the problem. Power Computing
> PowerTower Pro with a Newer Tech MaxPower G4 upgrade. The system boots off
> of the install floppies and the install goes fine up to the hard disk boot
> step.
yes you need to use quik
setup a /etc/quik.conf something like this:
partition=3
root=/dev/sda3
image=/boot/vmlinux-2.2.17
label=Linux
read-only
then run /sbin/quik
then run:
nvsetenv boot-device `ofpath /dev/sda3`
this all assumes your root partition is /dev/sda3, replace that with
your real root partition. also change partition=3 to whatever
partition number your root partition is, eg /dev/sda5 == partition=5
after that you should be able to boot via quik. you need yaboot
0.9_0.29 from debian installed to get the ofpath utility.
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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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