On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 06:32:26PM -0400, Chris Adamson wrote: > My Debian-savvy pal got it set up on my crusty old Performa 6400 except > for one problem. We absolutely cannot get it to boot from the hard > drive (and instead have to go in through BootX on a scsi zip drive) > > The problem may be that in our rushed partitioning, we created the > following table: > (dev : name : type) > hda1: Apple_Partition_Map : Apple > hda2: Apple_Bootstrap : bootstrap > hda3: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 : swap > hda4: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 : linux > > We now think that the "bootstrap" partition is unneccessary and only > used for newworld machines (which the 6400 is not)
yes, but it won't harm anything, and will let you make the disk newworld bootable in the event you want to drop the disk into a newworld box. > At any rate, we absolutely cannot achieve a set of nvsetenv vars that > will make OpenFirmware happy (the fact that OF doesn't seem to have any > display, at least on the monitor that we're using, doesn't help). http://penguinppc.org/usr/quik and if that page doesn't work right: http://master.penguinppc.org/usr/quik if you can't get quik to work your up a creek. (other then BootX which isn't really booting but kludging IMO). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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