On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 01:42:16PM +0100, tarak wrote: > 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.
That's a possibility. > - hacking the firmware settings for boot-device > and bootfile... tried this but was rather un- > successfull... You may need to do more of this too. You need to obtain the patched version of quik that runs on G3's, there's a link and instructions in section 8.1 of the online installation manual (www.debian.org/releases/stable/install). BootX works reliably on G3s, but since you wiped out MacOS you can't use it. > 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... > Actually many of these are quite useful, although you should make sure they are talking about G3 powerbook, not newer powerbooks or ibooks. -- http://Www.TruthAboutWar.org Chris Tillman - Linux Rox -
