On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 12:27:18PM -0800, Mark Jaroski wrote: > When I tried it with my G3 266 I had a lot better luck starting > out booting from BootX than with the floppies. Actually I > pretty much never turn the machine off, so I haven't gotten > around to dealing with quik... > > > You might want to try BootX, assuming you still have MacOS on > the machine. I have a working Beige G3 kernel if you want it...
I installed it on a new hard disk.. I have macos on another hd which is not installed.. Don't you know how to put a zImage kernel on a hfs formatted floppy (like boot-floppy-hfs.img) ? I know oldworld ppc can read only vmlinux.coff style kernel.. but the boot-floppy has a zImage kernel.. I tried with a kernel from http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debian-ppc-bugs.html (ie http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debs/vmlinux.coff-2.2.15), I do the following in OF: 0 > setenv boot-device fd:vmlinux.coff 0 > setenv boot-file root=/dev/sda3 (my root partition) 0 > boot It starts loading (loader: loading XCOFF ...) but then (after clearing .bss, done..) it says CLAIM failed, and returns to OF. If I use: 0 > setenv boot-device /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ADPT,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 0 > setenv boot-file /boot/vmlinux-2.2.18pre21 root=/dev/sda3 after typing boot the hd led blinks, but it says: DEFAULT CATCH!, code=FFF00300 at %SRR0: FF80B51C %SRR1: 0000B070 and it hangs! If the vmlinux.coff approach is correct, I'd like very much to have a small kernel (with aha2940 and de4x5 ethernet card), but also I'd like to know how to make a zImage kernel like boot-floppy-hfs.img... Any ideas ?? Thanks very much... > > It's got the USB stuff compiled in, which might be a problem for > you if you don't have a USB card.. I also turned on support for > the Tulip 100MB ethernet they were distributing with the Beige > G3s.
