Hi, On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 14:05:25 +0100 christian funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm desperately trying to get oldworld powermacs to boot different > kernels (official images or custom). Yes plural, since I have several > oldworlds and am not sure exactly which kernels I will need. > > Can someone point me to a definitive HOWTO or thread in a mailing > list? If not, any feedback on the below is very very welcome: You may look at http://penguinppc.org/projects/quik/, and find the correct settings for your OpenFirmware version there. There has been quite a lot of booting-related messages on this list in the past, so searching the archives may also help. > Executing quik then has no effect (probably normal, > since quik leaves the nvram untouched, right?). Installing a fresh > Debian system enables to boot back into linux directly. Is there > another way to fix the nvram and/or pram after zapping it, so I can > boot directly to linux? There is a utility to set OF vars from MacOS, but I can't remember the name. With Linux, 'nvsetenv' will do the job > What seems strange, is that the original install process > writes a different quik.conf as quikconig. What writes the quik.config > during a fresh install? If your quik.conf is correct (man quik.conf ;-), and your OF settings also (see above), evrything should run fine. > Does anyone know how to get quik to work properly? You will do soon :-) Hope this helps, Simon -- Simon Vallet Due to massive spam, the address shown in the From: header only accepts mail from Debian hosts. If you wish to mail me privately, just use the 'user' local part.
