Bug#156710: BOOT error on new install to Mac Performa 6360 PowerPC

2002-08-21 Thread Al Smith
Restarting from scratch... I reset all the pram to factory defaults (Cmd+Opt+p+r ) before starting the install. I completely repartitioned the drive. 64k for the partion map (hda1 by default) / has remainder of 1.2g drive (hda2) 64m for swap. (hda3) Booting from floopy, running the

Re: Bug#156710: BOOT error on new install to Mac Performa 6360 PowerPC

2002-08-21 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 03:50:03PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: At 14:58 +0200 8/21/02, Al Smith wrote: Restarting from scratch... I reset all the pram to factory defaults (Cmd+Opt+p+r ) before starting the install. I completely repartitioned the drive. 64k for the partion map (hda1 by

Bug#156710: BOOT error on new install to Mac Performa 6360 PowerPC

2002-08-21 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 05:58:50AM -0700, Al Smith wrote: Restarting from scratch... I reset all the pram to factory defaults (Cmd+Opt+p+r ) before starting the install. I completely repartitioned the drive. 64k for the partion map (hda1 by default) / has remainder of 1.2g drive

Bug#156710: BOOT error on new install to Mac Performa 6360 PowerPC

2002-08-21 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 08:11:23AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: As I mentioned before, try searching the list archives for Performa. You can't search for 6360 because the indexing software doesn't index numbers. But when I searched debian-powerpc for the last five quarters on performa, I got

Bug#156710: BOOT error on new install to Mac Performa 6360 PowerPC

2002-08-19 Thread Al Smith
(Read this reply from the bottom up.) From the bottom up... It often happens, after a failed boot, that OF is hopelessly hosed. Use reset-all to get a fresh copy. reset-all command issued Here you had quik loaded! I think just changing your boot-file to Linux will let it boot. You can

Bug#156710: BOOT error on new install to Mac Performa 6360 PowerPC

2002-08-19 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 06:50:31AM -0700, Al Smith wrote: (Read this reply from the bottom up.) From the bottom up... It often happens, after a failed boot, that OF is hopelessly hosed. Use reset-all to get a fresh copy. reset-all command issued Here you had quik loaded! I

Bug#156710: BOOT error on new install to Mac Performa 6360 PowerPC

2002-08-15 Thread Al Smith
I have visited the netBSD site, and that has lead me to use the settings below (after running the firmware commands you listed). The boot-device setting has me confused - it is an IDE drive, but most examples are SCSI. I noticed the line FF83A798: /ATA-Disk@0,0 and tried changing

Bug#156710: BOOT error on new install to Mac Performa 6360 PowerPC

2002-08-15 Thread Chris Tillman
(Read this reply from the bottom up.) On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 04:41:00PM -0700, Al Smith wrote: I have visited the netBSD site, and that has lead me to use the settings below (after running the firmware commands you listed). The boot-device setting has me confused - it is an IDE drive,

Re: Bug#156710: BOOT error on new install to Mac Performa 6360 PowerPC

2002-08-14 Thread Herbert Xu
reassign 156710 boot-floppies quit On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 01:25:22PM -0700, Al Smith wrote: Package: kernel Version: 3.0 woody Severity: critical The exact and complete text of any error messages printed or logged: CLAIM failed Exactly what you typed or did to demonstrate the

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Bug#156710: BOOT error on new install to Mac Performa 6360 PowerPC

2002-08-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 07:51:21AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: reassign 156710 boot-floppies quit On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 01:25:22PM -0700, Al Smith wrote: Package: kernel Version: 3.0 woody Severity: critical The exact and complete text of any error messages printed or logged: