Bob Crandell wrote:
>
> I finally found a NIC for a Macintosh IIvx. I'm planning on taking it to the
>meeting tonight. Anyone want to play?
> I know Debian will work on it. Will Mandrake? Slackware? Any others?
I ran one of the BSDs on my Quadra 800 (68040) "way back when" and I believe
Yellow Dog makes a version of Linux for 68K Macs.
Dennis
>
> See ya there.
>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/28/2001 2:56:59 PM >>>
> I'm passing a message in lilo.conf in the line:
> append="opti hdc=ide-scsi"
> and then the boot messages report
> hdc: driver not present
>
> I feel like I'm making progress but being a dummy about it;
> I didn't think there was a specific mod for the burner,
>
> Other messages from 'dmesg', before that error message, are
> ide-setup: hdc=ide-scsi
> then later (also before the error above)
> hdc: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-yadayada, ATAPI CDROM drive
> which is on ide1
> ide0 is a data drive, which I've recently been having
> trouble with -- since I got it recognized, and tried to
> re-run lilo, lilo complained that its root was not on the
> "first" hard disk. I had been booting from my scsi drive,
> and had to just install lilo on the MBR of the primary ide
> hd; ended up doing this command to rescue my boxen:
> chroot /dev/hda /sbin/lilo -v -v
> Well that was 'fun' but I still don't have access to
> the burner... at least I'm past the point of turned-around
> ide cable -- if anyone has any clues please send them along!
>
> thanx for yer time
>
> ben
