On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 01:24:25PM +0200, Simon Vallet wrote: > > On 12 Jul, this message from Simon Vallet echoed through cyberspace: > > >> I don't really believe changing load-base makes a difference ... > > > > > > the NetBSD people say that this may help : > > > http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/faq.html#ofw-claim-failed > > > > I'm not sure all their OF explanations are correct. > > I guess you were both right : I tried many possible combinations of > load-base/real-base, with no success... > > > > don't know if it is the same under Linux, thoug. > > > > There won't be any difference on the OF side... OF isn't changed by the > > OS :-) > > Of course, but I can remember I had to change the real-base on an older mac > because the kernel was too big (OF was not changed, but affected) > > > I have no idea, I'm lucky enough to not need BootX, and have gotten rid > > of MacOS... > > Maybe I'll have to keep a MacOS partition :-(, but I still want to try some > things : > - in OF, when I 'dev' to '/pci/mac-io/[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (first ide) and 'ls' > there, i get the following : > /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 > /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 > and I would have expected: > /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 (master) > /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 (slave) > > could this confuse quik ?
Seems suspicious. Could one of the disks have a jumper in the wrong place, making it behave as master instead of slave? Would it help to remove some hardware? > > - do the limitations listed there : > http://mike.quintero.staff.noctrl.edu/slackintosh/index-2002-07-12.html > still apply ? - quik can load a kernel from within /boot - it cannot use symlinks - ext3 works - I believe the size limitation, especially considering quik's use of a hard coded memory map. I can load this 2.4 kernel with quik: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3639229 Jun 8 20:50 vmlinux-2.4.18-newpmac I can't confirm or deny on the other restrictions listed. BTW, I don't think the 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 kernels in the archive work for pmac yet. > - I noticed the presence of a quik-1.3.1.tar.gz at > http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan/ftp/ > Is this version still pertinent ? I use quik 2.0... could the changes have > break something ? That is the potato version. There were bug fixes, listed in its changelog. And I think the G3 was not even available when it was done. But it couldn't hurt to try it ... > I just want to be sure to try everything before using BootX... > > Simon > -- > Simon Vallet > Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Acc�dez au courrier �lectronique de La Poste : www.laposte.net ; > 3615 LAPOSTENET (0,34�/mn) ; t�l : 08 92 68 13 50 (0,34�/mn) > -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net
