On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Chris Tillman wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:11:29PM +0100, Mark Baumann wrote: > > Hallo! > > I have some Problems installing quik on my Powermac. > > It was working already with bootx but i wanted to save some space and > > tried with quik. I read the archive of the last few months . But I am not > > able to get it working. OK here are the main steps i have taken: > > 1. Installed Debian Potato > > 2. mounted my root partition and chrooted to it (mount /dev/sda2 /target; > > chroot target; > > 3. mounted proc under target/proc (new root filesystem) > > 4. changed quik.conf to boot from /boot/vmlinux-2.2.19; no symlink! > > This was the chroot /etc/quik.conf, right? > Yes > > 5. ofpath /dev/sda gave me /bandit/gc/53c93/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > 6 nvsetenv boot-device /bandit/gc/53c93/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0 > > This seems not unreasonable; I have had good luck with quik using the > OF aliases also, such as scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0 or scsi-int/[EMAIL > PROTECTED]:0 > > Try also > > nvsetenv boot-file Linux <-- the name of the label in quik.conf > This worked. It boots (2 beeps) but only one time if I want to reboot it, its dead again (1 beep) > or > > nvsetenv boot-file scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0/boot/vmlinux-2.2.19 > > Since you don't have any video, maybe quik is actually loading but the > default image isn't working, and you can't see it. > > Also, you can see what OF is doing if you hook up another computer to > the modem port and start a ZTerm or similar comm program at 38400 8,N,1. > > > 7. quik -f -v seems to be ok > Also, what partition does it install to? Try using that number instead > of 0 after the colon, e.g. scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:5 > 2. partition > Best regards Mark
