> > > Sorry if I missed something, but why don't you just use BootX? > > > > Because not everyone wants to keep MacOS around, I assume. > > Sure, I'm one of those people. But if it's between not having macos > around or not using the machine at all?
I just wanted to recycle a mac we have here. Having in mind how easy it is to install debian on i386 and sparc, I wanted to avoid the effort to run MacOS (I never installed it and I never used it). If I would have an MacOS expert around, I probably wouldn't mind. > Many of you will remember that bootx was a great step forward when it > came out because it eliminated *exactly these problems* that the > original poster is having. But then, he's probably already lost > interest in the discussion and waiting for his pc to arrive.... > Guillaume didn't stop sending comments. The current state is that the 9500 can read the quik bootstrap information from the HD but does not find a suitable kernel: > > > That's weird : macs usually makes one beng when boot tests are sucessful > > > (your hear a > > > crashing glass else), but I wasn't aware that it could beep several time. > > > Did you try to > > > remove fancy hardware and extra ram ??? Should not be necesary if the mac > > > used to show > > > the question mark when it tries booting macos (then all is fine except it > > > cannot find a > > > suitable system folder on either hd, cd on floppy to boot from) > > > > I was wrong here: > > > > the beeps in between the mac bengs come from the monitor. And the two bengs > > (and the beeps) are only there if I reboot from the linux installation > > procedure. > > Thats cool ! it means that the 9500 can correctly read the quik bootstrap > information from the > hd, since it must reset the computer to give linux the ability to take > over(it has something > to do with the init of the scsi busses I believe). > Each time you reset the PRAM, you reset the 9500 to "macos mode", quik makes > it return its > into "linux mode", resets it and then hangs. > So we narrowed the problem to this: your quik cannot fnd a suitable kernel, > check quik.conf > and the state of the system installed ! > Thanks. Rainer.
