On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 07:37:00AM -0700, toff wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 12:46:22PM +0200, Tobias Stefan Richter wrote: > > quik will not autoboot on my PowerMac 4400, when left alone no timeout > > will boot the machine automatically. I have to enter either a kernel > > path or quik label name to start up. Just hitting enter I see this: > > > > Enter the kernel image name as [device:][partno]/path, where partno is a > > number from 0 to 16. Instead of /path you can type [mm-nn] to specify a > > range of disk blocks (512B) > > boot: > > > > After entering something reasonable quik loads the specified image > > (specified either by label name or path) just fine. > > Setup looks like this: > > > > init-message="Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC (woody)" > > default=Linux > > timeout=100 > > root=/dev/hda2 > > partition=2 > > image=/boot/vmlinux-2.4.20-ben10 > > label=Linux > > read-only > > append="console=ttyS0,38400" > > image=/boot/vmlinux-2.2.20-pmac > > label=orig > > read-only > > append="console=ttyS0,38400" > > Everything looks reasonable, I wonder if there is some issue > with whatever timing mechanism quik uses, on this machine. > Even 0 does not work?
You know, when quik does its 'automatic' thing, it actually types the letters on the screen L-i-n-u-x. Maybe it would work when you switch your input and output devices to kbd and screen. -- http://Www.TruthAboutWar.org Chris Tillman - Linux Rox -
