On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:07:54AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > My first debian install was potato on my G4/450/AGP, and that went > > relatively smoothly, but unfortunately, that's my work box, and I need to be > > running MacOS 95% of the time on it, so I had to switch back after a few > > days of playing with it...However, I've got an old Power Computing Powerwave > > 132 that I've been trying to install debian on, without a whole lot of > > success. I knew about the OF output to serial port issue beforehand, and > > picked up a Griffin G4port serial port for my G4 so I could set up the Zterm > > terminal app to talk to my Powerwave and tell it to send the output to the > > video card and keyboard (since System Disk gave an error saying it didn't > > work with my machine). I followed all the steps in both Apple's Open > > Firmware Technote and NetBSD's MacPPC FAQ but have not been able to get the > > output to display in Zterm despite trying every combination of settings I > > could find, and even trying plugging into the printer serial port instead of > > the modem port (purely out of desperation), to no avail. The Powerwave stops > > booting in just the right place when I use the OF key combo, but nothing > > shows up in the terminal. I'm totally stumped and haven't been able to find > > any help anywhere else, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > > > I was successful in the end, with a PowerBase 180. BootVars (v1.3 is > available in the current/powermac folder) worked to set the OF environment > variables from MacOS. BTW, BootX crashed every time I tried it, both at > startup and as an application, and System Disk told me the same thing. > > I have BootVars v1.4 but I forgot where I found it.
I had quik and OF booting working some of the time with a powerbase 200 but found that BootX worked ALL the time so I gave up and used that. The whole serial port thing was too much work and too unreliable. I could never get quik to boot unattended into linux, but could do that with bootx. Seems to me you need a full bag of tricks to work with the PCI clones. What works for some of us on some models never works for others on other models. YMMV. cfm -- Christopher F. Miller, Publisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] MaineStreet Communications, Inc 208 Portland Road, Gray, ME 04039 1.207.657.5078 http://www.maine.com/ Content management, electronic commerce, internet integration, Debian linux
