On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 05:02:38PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> um, something that people informed me about when I hosed my system
> was that you can boot the system holding down the cmd-opt-P-R keys,
> and it will reset the nvram to the defaults so you can start all
> over again trying to get it to boot with OF/quik. When this
> actually works (sometimes it takes a couple of tries) my machine did
> the chimes twice. my advice is after you reset the nvram, read the
> man page for nvsetenv and for quik before doing anything precipitous
> like changing your boot-device. it helps to find out for sure what
> the disk device is to use. like, is your hard drive set to scsi id
> 0 for sure, and like that. if you can get into the OF, check your
> aliases to make sure that you have a scsi-int alias, and that it
> points to the right scsi bus that your disk is on. My 8500 has two
> scsi controllers, and they both have a connector on the motherboard,
> but only one is attached to the external connector.
Here's an update of my situation.
Resetting the nvram worked so I was able to reboot from
the debian-install disks again.
I read quite some pages on the topic I've found and
tried again:
1. booted into debian-install and changed to the 2nd console
2. nvsetenv boot-device 'scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0'
my hd is not the original one but it is found by the
kernel on the boot-disk as ibm scsi hd and it is
id 0 on controller 0.
3. mount -t ext2 /dev/sda3 /target
/target/etc/quik.conf looks like this
timeout=10
partition=3
image=/boot/vmlinux-2.2.19
label=linux
root=/dev/sda3
read-only
4. mount -t proc proc /target/proc
chroot /target /sbin/quik -v -f
that went without error so I went on
5. umount /target/proc
umount /target
/sbin/reboot
And then: nothing. The screen stays blank. I guess that
it hangs in the OF-Prompt which I cannot see because
it's a 7200/8200 which cannot display the OF on the screen
(this is just sick!).
I can flash the nvram again and start over: same story.
I'll try to find a cable to connect the mac-serial
and my i386 debian-box. Maybe that will give some
more information.
Any more hints on what else to try?
BTW: If I find a macos cd somewhere and if I install
macos on the powermac, can I choose to create a real
small macos partition so that I just install bootx
on it? Or does macos grab the complete hd and if
so is it possible to shrink the partition afterwards?
(You see: I don't know anything about macs/macos
but I'm not yet willing to give up on getting GNU/Linux
running on it. Any hints are welcome.)
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