On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 08:54:29AM -0500, Kevin van Haaren wrote: > > If anyone else tries this and you start out attempting to use the > instructions in the powerpc install pages on debian.org, you may need to > totally wipe your PRAM (zapping it via command+optin+p+r at reboot isn't > enough). The only way I found to do this was to unplug and pull the battery > off the motherboard (on the 7200 it's under the harddrive/power supply tray, > you'll need to flip that up to get to it) >
that was not the case on my friends 7200, a command option p r did reset the nvram when we had to do taht initially getting quik working. > the default (for a rev 3 install anyway) is to use the symlink /vmlinux. > Which points to /boot/vmlinux-2.2.18pre21. When I was having problems after > using the install instructions on debian website, i wiped the PRAM and then > modified quik as above. Not sure if quik will work through a symlink or not. > Although /vmlinux points to 2.2.18pre21, 2.2.19 is installed (at least on a > cd-rom install) and that's what i pointed to. > that is a bug in the quik installation then, quik does not support symlinks. > i went back into the installer and exited from there instead. mainly due to > the error on umount. I thought the installer might do something to correctly > umount /target. > umount /target/proc you had to have mounted that for quik to work, since quik requires /proc -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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