jerome Arbez-Gindre wrote: > Hi, Hi,
a nice subject for my first post on this list :-P > I'm trying to install a ppc debian on a ppc-qemu, and when Partamn makes > the patitionning, it shows me a "Apple" partition (32.3 kB) at the very > beginning of the disk. > I suppose that this partition contains a bootstrap and is filled by the > MacOS installer. > > Is my supposition right ? The first partition of an apple partition is the partition map itself ("Apple_partition_map"). "Apple partition" format is a legacy from the m68k macintosh. Then, you can find a partition called "Apple_Driver" that is in fact the driver to manage the disk. On m68k macintosh, to be bootable a disk must own: - an "Apple_Driver" partition - an "Apple_HFS" partition - a boot sector in "Apple_HFS" I don't know if this mapping must be applied to ppc macintosh, but I think, for early ones at once. You can find more details in the HOWTO of EMILE (http://emile.sourceforge.net , "Install EMILE on your SCSI disk") > And if yes, is there a way to fill this part with a working bootstrap > before the debian installation. You can try the tools coming with EMILE, but you must extract "Apple_Driver" from a bootable macintosh drive. I made it to make bootable a CDROM, I didn't try with a disk. But IMHO, the best solution is to boot a MacOS installer CDROM. You should, also, be able to use OpenFirmware command "boot" (something like " boot /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\ppc\chrp\vmlinuz-chrp.initrd", this one works on Bull Escala). But I don't know the level of implemenation of OpenFirmware in qemu-ppc. Otherwise, use the "-kernel", "-initrd", "-append" parameters of qemu. Regards, Laurent -- ------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------- "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
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