I installed sarge (I think) from the Sven's daily boot floppies at http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/
Several issues are list-worthy. In this installation, which uses the 2.6.8-powerpc kernel, quik was sucessfully installed. That's a recent improvement over other installs I've tested (iso CD - last weekly, netinst CD - this weekly), where quik went by quik, and no success message afterward. This time, after the success message, d-i reported "Setting up Firmware" or something, then a warning that the system might not boot, etc., etc... I have my Beige G3 set to stop at the OF prompt. After rebooting out of stage one of the installation, I simply typed "boot" and got a message, I think it was something like, "CAN'T OPEN pci/mac-io/mesh/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:x". x=? Anyway, I remember from my reading at FreeBSD and penguinppc.org about needing to bless the drive with Apple's System Disk unility. So I setenv boot-device back to default (/AAPL,ROM), got back into MacOS9 and blessed my scsi drive by reconfiguring the PowerUser with manual settings for boot-device pci/mac-io/mesh/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:x and changed the boot file to /boot/vmlinux-2.6.8-powerpc. Restart... On the OF prompt I typed boot, and got the following: RESETing SCSI bus DEFAULT CATCH!, code=FFF00700 at %SRR0: 003f4000 %SRR1: 00083070 Hey! that's farther than I'd gotten in the last 48 hours! Anybody know what's happening here? Should I pass load-base values to the setenv? I'm still doing the reading, and I'll pay the dues, but I was hoping someone would snatch this up and give me a boost. System : OldWorld PowerMac Beige G3 233 revision 2.2 processor : 0 cpu : 740/750 temperature : 32-35 C (uncalibrated) clock : 233MHz revision : 2.2 (pvr 0008 0202) bogomips : 465.92 machine : Power Macintosh motherboard : AAPL,Gossamer MacRISC detected as : 48 (PowerMac G3 (Gossamer)) pmac flags : 00000000 L2 cache : 512K unified pipelined-syncro-burst memory : 64MB pmac-generation : OldWorld Open Firmware v 2.01f Regards, Duane Cottle
