On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 15:02:45 +0100 christian funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What I need is more complete documentation so I can figure it out > myself... I'm afraid there's no such thing as a quik-HOWTO, people are rapidly loosing interest in OldWorld macs... maybe in the install manual (didn't check recently). Anyway, here's a qui(c)k one :-) - Download the OF patches you need and apply them (there's a howto for the 7500 at http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/SystemDisk-tutorial/of105patch.html ). - You won't be able to change all the vars you need with System Disk -- the app I was mentioning is "BootVars" ; it is on the Woody CD, but I guess you can get it somewhere else also. - I suggest you set 'auto-boot?'' to false until you get all things right -- this, way, if you did set your 'output-device' correctly, you will be able to communicate directly with OF, which may give you a hint at what's wrong and the name of interesting devices (more on this later) .- If you don't use an additional video card, the setting listed at http://penguinppc.org/projects/quik/quirks.shtml should be correct. If you do, I suggest you boot into Linux (installer) and look into /proc/device-tree for something looking like a video card (also check the HW docs for your machine at apple's site : http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/hardware2.html -- you may be able to find for example the OF name of your PCI bus) ; dmesg may also help you. - The 'boot-device' setting is the most important... if you're booting from SCSI, check for the OF name of your SCSI bus. Maybe install once more and look at what the installer did set for you : # nvsetenv - The 'boot-file' should be set to the label you assigned to your kernel in quik.conf, e.g. "Linux" If you get thos settings correct, you should be able to boot your machine (Note that I don't have a 7500 myself, so I'm not 100% positive on this). If you get to the OF prompt, some commands might help you to find the good device paths : - "dev /" will cd to the root of the device-tree - "ls" will list the contents of a node - "dev <node>" will cd to the node - "printenv" will list the your current boot variables - "setenv <var> <value>" will set 'var' to 'value' - "set-default <var>" will reset 'var' to its default value - "reset-all" will reboot your machine (useful when changing vars) - "boot" will boot, or the more esoteric command at penguinppc.org if your drive's slow to spin up. Once everything is working, you can set 'boot-command' to the command you used for booting, and 'auto-boot?' to'true' again. (Note that keeping 'auto-boot?' set to false allows you to boot MacOS without resetting the PRAM -- which is useful if you have OF patches applied :-) Actually, (almost forgot that the installer got it right for you :-), the best way would be to install once more and do a 'nvsetenv' from within Linux -- this will show you the correct values. If you want to keep them and still boot MacOS, set 'auto-boot?' to false and type 'bye' at the OF prompt. Can't do much more there -- let me know what happens 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.
