hello all, maybe one of you knows what to do about the boot problem after the first installation of debian stable powerpc.
i have a powerbook g3 wallstreet with 250 MHz CPU and 192 MB RAM. it's an oldworld system with an 2.0.1 firmware. installation works fine. i boot the boot-floppy-hfs.img which asks for the root-floppy. after having loaded this one dbootstrap starts and i can do everything as usual. set up the network and download packages. fdisk my harddrive. i have reinitialized my partition table and created one linux partition(3.75GB) and a swap partition(350MB) at the end of the disk. finally i make the system bootable, using quik to do this, and reboot. nothing happens... black screen. i have looked for a description of this problem in the net but only found somebody's answer to a mailing-list-post saying that the out- and input-devices would be set to the serial port. i checked that but found the settings correct i think. the were set to "screen" and "kbd". i think the problem is that the firmware doesn't know what to boot. i have resetted the firmware and after that the grey screen with a floppy and a blinking ?-sign appears. apple says that this meens that the system doesn't know what to boot, not finding the default macos. does anyone know what to do about this? i think there are two possibilities: - booting from a patched floppy. embarrasing... i would also have to keep two copies of the kernels i build afterwards, one on the floppy. - hacking the firmware settings for boot-device and bootfile... tried this but was rather un- successfull... would really apreciate your help.... additional tips and suggestions would also be great. i searched the whole evening for howtos or articles on this subject but when you look for "debian install powerbook" at google you are flooded with all kinds of translations of debian's own install manual... thnx i.a. regards, tarak
