On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:00:43AM +0000, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Hi all, > > I followed some of the advice that I received here about moving the > partition I was trying to boot with quik to in front of the macosX > partition. This still failed. > > I have now abandoned the idea of dual booting for the moment and am > just trying to boot debian on this beast. > > I booted off of the woody disks, and at partition time, hit i and > reinitialised the disk. This means that I now have only the apple > partition map, an ext2 partition of 2000M and a swap partition of > 128M. > > I went through the install process, made the system bootable and > rebooted. I still get the white screen with the scrolling > can't OPEN: can't OPEN: > > So now this is no longer a dual boot issue, but just a how do I boot > debian :( > > Any advice on what else could be wrong would be much appreciated. >
After an inspirational look at the boot-floppies todo list, I think I found the answer. At www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html there are comments about your machine, the main one being that you need System Disk to update your broken firmware. I'll add this to the docs somewhere. -- *--v------ Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 For PowerPC -----v----* | <http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks- | | (pause for breath) powerpc/current/doc/install.en.html> | | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
