On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Alex Romosan wrote: > i can't seem to be able to boot back into debian after i delete the > redhat partition. this is what i did. i created three partitions, one > swap 20mb, one unix partition 100mb, and another unix partition for > the rest of the disk. i installed the base redhad ppc system on the > 100mb partition + ftp, got the debian tarball, unpacked it in the > other partition modified quik to point to /dev/sda4 rebooted and the > system came back under debian. > > next, i made a swap partition out of the redhat one, and then i wanted > to reboot the computer but it doesn't want to come back under linux > any more. i went back to macos, run bootvars with these parameters:
did you make your debian partition bootable? before you removed the redhat one, it was probably getting the bootblocks from there.. what i suggest is to get a vmlinux.coff from samba.anu.edu.au, boot from a floppy, then get ftp://kernel.crashing.org/pub/quik_1.3.0-1.deb. edit /etc/quik.conf, and try booting directly off that disk again. matt. > boot-device=scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0 > boot-file=/boot/vmlinux /dev/sda4 > > still no luck. does anybody have any ideas? in the past i went back > and reinstalled the redhat base system on /dev/sda3 and continued from > there, but i don't want to do that again. i want to find a reliable > way to reboot my computer without redhat on it. thanks.
