Re: 8600 scsi problem

[bhairava]

Darren wrote:

bhairava wrote:

Darren wrote:


To the best of my knowledge any worth while distro requires a macos 
to contain bootx to boot either a install kernel or some other 
before entering linux on oldworld macs. I guess its the same for 
floppy versions?

there are many types of bootloaders (3 to my knowledge) and not all 
need macos to boot. however my error is a hardware one (it tries to 
acces a protected memory zone) probably it has to do with openfirmware.


Pengin for 68k, bootx for old-world - 8600 ect and 2 that I know of for
new-world. I'm interested in any 68k or old-world boot loader that 
doesn't
require a macos.
I'm told that netbsd has a way around this but haven't looked into it.

You've got me on the openfirmware bit on a old 8600?

yeah, it has openfirmware on it, i beieve all have it

You might try a standard install using bootx and a mac partition 
leaving all
other disk space free, then once in the linux install, partition the 
free space
to suit your needs.

i can boot, but when i acces the hdd to format it it kernel panics

The fact you only get into the install on the 10th time using floppies 
suggests
to me something is wrong from the out set, any kernel panic was likely.

it's a bug in openfirmware on oldworld, everybody has this problem 
booting from floppies.



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