morten wrote: > > >> I'm installaing on a powerpc 7200/75 > >> I'm installing debian potato using a network installation > >> I install everything and just before rebooting I do... > >> > >> # ofpath > >> /bandit/gc/53c94/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> > >> I change /target/etc/quik.conf to include the line > >> image=/boot/vmlinux-2.2.19 > >> > >> # mount -t proc proc /taget/proc > >> # chroot /target /sbin/quik -fv > >> which tells me it installs quik on /dev/sda2 > >> > >> #ntsetenv boot-device /bandit/gc/53c94/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0 > >> > >> after which I reboot. > >> It gives me the startup-sound *twice* > which I now know means that it has detected a change in the nvram, which is > ok. > > > I've installed potato on a 7200/75, and you've made it past the hard > > part. I would suggest reading the entire man page for nvsetenv > > because there are additional changes to the nvram that might solve > > your problem, including a different boot-command. > do you have a link to the man pages? > > I did > # nvsetenv boot-command > boot > # nvsetenv boot-device > /bandit/gc/53c94/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0 > # nvsetenv boot-file > <nothing ..> > # nvsetenv input-device > ttya > # nvsetenv output-device > ttysa > > To me it looks like I lack something in the boot-file entry. > I also tried the > # nvsetenv boot-command "begin ['] boot catch 1000 ms cr again" > from the script attached to one the emails, but the result was the same. > > does anyone see the light?
I had a similar problem on my 7200. It turns out that some hard drives are just not OF friendly, not that it's the hard drives fault. It would usually boot at least one out of 5 attempts ~:^) I gave up and hacked the miBoot based boot floppy to do the job for me, setting the root device and unsetting the prompt for root floppy. This is not a very happy solution if you want to use a custom kernel. But really BootX with MacOS is the most versatile and reliable way to boot these machines with the brain damaged OF. Somebody posted a URL a few weeks ago where one can download 7.x.x of MacOS. The non-versatile OF of these computers makes it hard to have a non-MacOS based solution. There's been talk of getting yaboot to work as a second stage to quik, but really quik is fine. The hard part is getting the OF to read ANYTHING off the hard disk in a reliable manner. a
