Hi everybody, Could someone help me for the following problem, please?
I am a system administrator in a University and I tried to install Debian PPC (potato and woody) on some Performa 6400... the installation went relatively well with the potato boot floppies, but I have been unable to make it boot from the harddrive. I would like to use quik and not BootX since I don't want to let MacOS available on them. I have tried any possible configuration or trick from a lot of documentation sources: http://penguinppc.org/usr/quik http://penguinppc.org/usr/quik/quirks.shtml http://lppcfom.sourceforge.net/ etc... (the Open Firmware on Performa 6400 is 2.0) Some people reported success making it boot (but maybe not with quik). I saw that I should change load-base to 100000, keep input-device and output-device to ttya, I removed the modem to see if it would change something, I upgraded to woody to have a newer version of quik... BTW quik runs without problems: mac-performa2:~# quik -vf Second-stage loader is on /dev/hda6 Config file is on partition 6 Writing first-stage QUIK boot block to /dev/hda6 Making /dev/hda6 bootable (map entry 6) Writing block table to boot block on /dev/hda6 All I can get at best when every parameter seemed ok, is a weird screen at boot with black and white horizontal lines. Sometimes it displays what seems to be some characters, but really really scrambled. But it never boots. It stops just there, at the very beginning of the boot. I tried to use the video parameters that seemed the most comptible: video=ofonly or atyfb. I tried to use a kernel from a linuxppc bootable cd which boots well, but once on the harddrive the result is the same as with the default woody kernel: the black and white lines (most of the time) or the scrambled characters. here are some more infos about my config: --- quik.conf ------------------ root=/dev/hda6 append="video=ofonly" timeout=20 image=/boot/vmlinux-2.2.19 label=Linux read-only -------------------------------- ----- mac-fdisk ---------------- /dev/hda # type name length base ( size ) system /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map /dev/hda2 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 64 @ 64 ( 32.0k) Driver 4.3 /dev/hda3 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 64 @ 128 ( 32.0k) Unknown /dev/hda4 Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 192 (256.0k) Unknown /dev/hda5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 260000 @ 704 (127.0M) Linux swap /dev/hda6 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 / 3073760 @ 260704 ( 1.5G) Linux native Block size=512, Number of Blocks=3334463 DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 Drivers- 1: @ 64 for 20, type=0x1 2: @ 128 for 31, type=0x701 -------------------------------- ----- of variables ------------- nvsetenv load-base 0x100000 nvsetenv boot-device "ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0" nvsetenv boot-file "ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:6/boot/vmlinux-2.2.19 root=/dev/hda6" -------------------------------- any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Dams.
