On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 08:32:21AM -0500, Corey Kovacs wrote: > On Tuesday 11 June 2002 20:13, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 10:04:33AM -0500, Corey Kovacs wrote: > > > I am going to keep trying with quik, one thing I found on the NetBSD page > > > was that I may need to run SystemDisk to upgrade openfirmware which I > > > have not done, but am getting ready to soon. > > > > That is a little MacOS app, I might have it laying around somewhere if > > you can't find it. I couldn't really tell if it did anything on my machine. > > Yup, found it. Supposedly when you click on the save button it updates your > OpenFirmware. Only the shadow really knows I guess. Anyway I tried that, > didn't seem to make a difference. I am booting in right now via BootX 1.2.2. > I tried setting the load-base this morning to 4000, 60000, 100000, 1000000 as > suggested by the quik folks. But I'm still using BootX. > > Some more information in case anyone else has any ideas... > > OpenFirmware version 2.0f1 > > #cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor : 0 > cpu : 750 > temperature : 0 C > clock : 233MHz > revision : 2.1 > bogomips : 467.44 > zero pages : total 0 (0Kb) current: 0 (0Kb) hits: 0/136 (0%) > machine : Power Macintosh > motherboard : AAPL,Gossamer MacRISC > L2 cache : 512K unified pipelined-syncro-burst > memory : 64MB > pmac-generation : OldWorld > > #nvsetenv > little-endian? false > real-mode? false > auto-boot? true > diag-switch? false > fcode-debug? false > oem-banner? false > oem-logo? false > use-nvramrc? false > real-base 0xffffffff > real-size 0x100000 > virt-base 0xffffffff > virt-size 0x100000 > load-base 0x40000 #I've tried 4000, 40000, 60000, 100000, > 1000000... > pci-probe-list 0xffffffff > screen-#columns 0x64 > screen-#rows 0x28 > selftest-#megs 0x0 > boot-device /pci/mac-io/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:6 > boot-file > diag-device fd:diags > diag-file > input-device kbd > output-device screen > oem-banner > oem-logo > nvramrc > boot-command boot > > #quik -v > Second-stage loader is on /dev/hda6 > Config file is on partition 6 > Writing first-stage QUIK boot block to /dev/hda6 > Making /dev/hda6 bootable (map entry 6) > Writing block table to boot block on /dev/hda6 > >
Nice summary. here's one more thing to try. Some disks don't spin up fast enough. use this for your boot-command to see if it makes a difference: setenv boot-command begin ['] boot catch 1000 ms cr again -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
