On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 06:45:02PM +0100, Edd Dumbill wrote: > So, I picked up a beige G3 300 from eBay. It has OpenFirmware 2.4, and > has a Rage 64 Pro graphics chip. > > I'm trying to complete an install of woody on this machine. BootX works > great, but I've had no luck with quik. Specifically, the symptoms are > that it just sits there on reboot -- not even a monitor signal or any > error message. Boot into OF, type 'boot', and I see 'unable to open > ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0'. (I've tried every conceivable combination for > boot-device, including substituting 0:0 for 0:2, see below, and been > through every value for load-base).
Many people find that quik won't work on the beige G3s, and end up using BootX. > > The machine's configuration is that there's a fresh disk on ide0's > master, and the MacOS 9.2 disk is slave on ide1. MacOS will boot fine. > > I ran SystemDisk in order to set up booting to OF, as per instructions. > > I've spent a significant amount of time searching this list and other > sources and can't find anything that successfully tells me the answer. > If anyone has beaten this particular problem, I'd love to hear from > them. > > Here's the partitioning of the disk: > > /dev/hda > # type name length > base ( size ) system > dump: name /dev/hda len 8 > /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ > 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map > /dev/hda2 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 12582912 @ > 64 ( 6.0G) Linux native > /dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 var 8388608 @ > 12582976 ( 4.0G) Linux native > /dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 901120 @ > 20971584 (440.0M) Linux swap > /dev/hda5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 other 134217728 @ > 21872704 ( 64.0G) Linux native > /dev/hda6 Apple_Free Extra 211056 @ > 156090432 (103.1M) Free space > > Running quik -vf gives; > > # quik -vf > Second-stage loader is on /dev/hda2 > Config file is on partition 2 > Writing first-stage QUIK boot block to /dev/hda2 > Making /dev/hda2 bootable (map entry 2) > Writing block table to boot block on /dev/hda2 > > thanks > > -- Edd (currently stuck with BootX but doesn't want to be) -- *------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]
