On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 06:55:32PM +0100, Jaap Looijen wrote: > I've installed Patato on my PPC ( Bull Estrella -> Motorola PPC) > > During installation , its very fast with the action for 'make the harddisk > bootable'
:sigh: please read the installation docs, it says that running this step alone is NOT enough to make the machine bootable. you also need to reconfigure OpenFirmware, there is a command in the documentation that changes the boot-device variable which on some machines is enough. > And it will not boot from harddisk. It boots ok from floppy ! > I've searched but i can not find lilo , lilo is a intel only bootloader. Oldworld powermacs use quik. newworld powermacs use yaboot/ybin. you have an oldworld. > how to make my harddisk bootable ? read the install docs and set the boot-device variable in OF, that may be enough, if not check the list archives for other suggestions. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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