If you had checked the archives you would have seen that I posted a week or two ago a link to a boot floppy that works. here it is again.
http://www.netfall.com/powerpc/boot-flopppy-oldworld.img Sebastiaan wrote: > > Hi, > > I think I found something usefull regarding the original boot floppy for > the powermac. It locks your keyboard, so I did the following: > > mount the disk > vi or edit .resource/System > find 'prompt_ramdisk=1' > change 1 into 0 > write it and boot it > > You just have to be quick when changing disks. I think this solution is > far more simpile then the ones described below (which I only got worked > half). > > Does this sound reasonable to you? > Should I send this to someone at Debian, so they can make an 'alternative > bootdisk'? > > Greetz, > Sebastiaan > > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Claus wrote: > > > > > Hi Sebastiaan! > > > > > > >: > > > >: So: > > > >: - which image is needed so my mac will boot it > > > > > > look for: > > > /usr/src/linux/arch/ppc/coffboot/vmlinux.coff > > > > > > it's been made by 'make zImage' iirc > > > and will be loaded from OF > > > "boot fd:vmlinux.coff" > > > > > > > > Cool, worked almost: it was > > boot fd:1,vmlinux.coff > > > > on an msdos formatted floppy (?) > > > > Is this not strange, I always thought Aplle hated M$? > > > > Thanks, > > Sebastiaan > > > > > > > Claus > > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
