On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 05:39:09PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > The standard first phase of the install on Supermac c500 goes fine, but > I'm having difficulty booting off the floppy to continue the rest of the > install due to normal old-world issues. > > On a 7500 where I ran into this problem, I stole a 2.4.12 suse > vmlinux.coff and (after setting proper nvram boot-device/boot-file) was > able to reboot and continue the install and then used this as my normal > floppy boot. On the C500 instead of getting kernel messages all I see is > wavy pixels after the monitor clicks back on. I haven't tried a serial > line, but I'm not hearing any disk activity so I doubt think init is > kicking off. > > I also tried cross-compiling the latest benh 2.4.19pre10 and got the same > result. So I don't know if this is a vmlinux.coff booting problem or > something specific with the kernels I've been using, since the debian hfs > boot (2.2.19) works fine.
One possibility (I assume booting from the hard disk with quik just doesn't work?) is patching the hfs floppy image boot arguments. There's a script for this at http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/powerpc-specials/miBoot/patch-floppy-image.pl -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
