The saga continues.... Machine: Performa 6400/180, Open Firmware version 2.0
I've got the Debian base distribution installed. After getting my hands on Boot Variables, reading all the docs I could find, coming up with variations on what the docs said (since the values given didn't work), and trying about 20 different combinations, I've managed to get to an Open Firmware prompt! Here's the wall I'm running into: OF keeps telling me "CLAIM failed" when I try entering "BOOT". "Linux" gets "linux, unknown word". Right before the prompt, the OF screen says: boot ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:5/boot/vmlinux-2.2.19-pmac root=/dev/hda5 can't OPEN The string after "boot" is what I have in the "boot-file" field of Boot Variables. My boot-device is "ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0". /target/etc/quik.conf says "image=/boot/vmlinux-2.2.19-pmac" and "root=/dev/hda5". (hda4 is swap; the first three partitions are the Apple partition map and the ATA drivers.) I've tried a variety of variations on the boot-file entry: deleting the "root" statement, changing the boot-command from "boot" to "Linux", and adding "/target" to the beginning of the paths. I've been doing it incrementally, only changing one thing at a time. Sorry for being so windy, but it's been two weeks and I'm so close! :) Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks once again, Mike
