On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 12:20:50PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Daniel, > > I make marginal progress here, but something is still going really wrong. The > make bootable from harddisk option withing dh_bootstrap does not throw the > message not yet possible for powerpc message any more (a typo during fdisk > made the root partition too small). But booting still does not work. > Iterating > is pretty tiem consuming, since you have to do the complete base installation > again and again. I see only a floppy disk on the screen after reboot. > > Thus, let me describe, what I did. Maybe there is an obvious mistake in this > procedure (due to my inexperience with PPC hardware and open firmware (still > not sure, if this is only a fancier name for BIOS)):
No, it's not really a fancier name for BIOS. It does a tremendous amount more than a PC BIOS. > Make system rebootable from harddisk (no error message any more) > > Make system rebootable from floppy (not yet implemented) As I said, making a system bootable with Quik is documented in the mailing list archives. You need to use nvsetenv in order to do it. On a 9500 you would probably want 'nvsetenv boot-file scsi-int/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0', but I'm not entirely sure. In order to get at nvsetenv you will need to go to VT2 and type "chroot /target" after installing the base system. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
