on 20/02/2002 12:50, Jerome Levesque at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install Debian 3 (woody) as the sole OS on my powermac 5400/180 > but I've been stuck for a few days now trying to input the right settings in > OF > (v2.0) to make Linux boot from the hard disk (IDE 1.2Gb). I know this issue > has > been documented at many places and discussed in the mailing lists but I still > have not found what was the problem in my configuration. The settings > suggested > by A.Arthur (http://penguinppc.org/projects/quik/) seem to fail for me. Here > are > my (unsuccessful!) OF settings: > > > nvsetenv input-device kbd > nvsetenv output-device ttya > nvsetenv auto-boot? true > nvsetenv boot-device ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0 > nvsetenv boot-file " /vmlinux root=/dev/hda2 video=atyfb:vmode:17:cmode:16" > nvsetenv boot-command "begin ['] boot catch 1000 ms cr again" > nvsetenv load-base 100000 >
The first time I installed tthe base package (from the RAM disk), I saw in the install manual like this: (first, I have to say that I have a 7500, which is Old World OF, and running on SCSI,) nvsetenv 'ofpath /dev/sdc6' During the install, when it asks you to "Make Linux partition bootable", you have to go down the list to "Open a shell", then type that. which then it subsequently booted into debian when I had configured BootX properly, and clicked "Linux". Since you're not using Mac OS at all, this may not help, but maybe it will. eric <snip>
