-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:10:27AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: >>Try installing with floppies? >> >>http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/sid/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/boot.img >>http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/sid/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/root.img
These ones doesn't work at the moment, it's impossible to load the net/cd-driver floppies, but I did try to install Sarge AND Woody and they both fail with quik. Reading around on the internet, it seems I have THE machine that causes problems! G3 beige with Open Firmware 2.4. So, with Woody AND Sarge (booting with BootX), I could install a complete Debian installation but it's impossible to boot on the new installation! >>In case quik turns out not to work on those beige G3 (seems it does >>work on some but not on others), you could use miboot for booting into >>the installed system too. So booting from a floppy? >>If miboot works OK, on that model (on my perfomas the cpu will run at >>1/10th speed when booted by miboot), I could make you a miboot >>boot-floppy to boot into the installed system Great! the root partition is /dev/hda2 and the image is located in /boot/vmlinux I think (of course I can not boot anymore so I don't know the exact image name! 2.6.8 or something!). > Maybe we could make have miboot to be listed in mkvmlinuz's bootloader, and > have code in /etc/kernel/postinst.d to automatically create the miboot floppy > for you on installs. That could be a solution. If I understand, you mean I have to put a floppy in the G3 to boot and that's all. So the boot would be 'automatic'? > Now that miboot is being freed, this would be a neat solution. > > Any volunteer to recode the boot sector based on the information Piotr > provided ? The boot sector written on the harddrive? Do you have an url to learn how to do that, how to write the program? I'm ready to learn everything if I could boot the f#@ G3?! Thanks - -- .''`. : :' :rnaud `. `' `- Java Trap: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD6dtz4vzFZu62tMIRAvi0AJwKH9NRns3bj7Jw29VCKQH0XgRevQCfRQgI 3Fqc/3kf81b/m2EKxJBhg1k= =Vb5P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
