Simon first, Hans second :) > I've done a fair bit of looking around on the above subject and tried
Hi David, this topic has been discussed several times here, so you might want to search through the archive -- I'm quite sure you'll find your luck : http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Beige+G3+boot+site%3Adebian.org&btnG=Go ogle+Search SImon ----------------- Simon, thanks for your reply, I have trawled trough the archives, and subsequent to your post looked again! Pretty much the same references I've already looked at. Quik seems to have limited success (from the posts) whereas it seems BootX is a more fruitful option. I didn't fancy playing with OF so opted for the latter. I've tried floppies (that I had to 'rawwrite' on a PC as anything I tried writing on the mac was never recognised, bearing in mind various warnings regarding mounting the disk image prematurely, changing the type and creator codes, etc, etc) I tried installing with the cd-drivers, no joy (trying to boot from CD's is a non starter due to ROM issues, according to the archives) The only option I've had limited success with is the net-install. This progesses but falls over after re-start when I put the relevant info into BootX. ------------------- Hans, MANY thanks for your reply, [snip] The kernel you boot with via BootX needs a initrd to work. I think the init in the initrd will find out which root partition it should use. So don't use root=/dev/sda7 but root=/dev/ram and initrd=<initrd.img> where <initrd.img> is a file available for BootX with the initrd. BTW. I have recently figured out how to configure OF to work with quik, and I only need to set one parameter, the boot-device parameter. So if you want to I give some advice on how to configure OF so you won't need to boot via MacOS. [/snip] Tried your suggestion, I wasn't sure where to put which bits (ie root device or kernal arguments) so tried every permutation. No luck, I must be missing/lacking something! I'll take you up on your offer of a Quik walkthrough, if you please. Where do I start!!! Wipe the disk and....? Thanks, Dave PS Mac savvy with a growing understanding of *nix. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
