On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:32:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > yeh, booting natively in linux is really cool. the 7500 is one of those > that can. for some reason a lot pf ppl have problems with the beige G3s > - they need quik too, but have obscure settings they need to boot from > quik.
So I noticed. I've got quik mostly working now, but not for automatic booting. I have to tell it manually where to look for the kernel. (quik.conf doesn't seem to do anything at all - why is this?) > did u try setting a vid mode in /etc/quik.conf? Yes, I had to figure out how to do that right away. Even with BootX, if I didn't add a mode string and append ',noaccel', the text would be all messed up, to the point of unreadability. Oh well, OFFB works for now. I'm not planning on running X on it, or doing a lot of console things with it. > setting boot-file doesn't work usually, not for me (a single CPU 604e > 7500) anyway. boot-command is ok, and boot-device, too. boot-file is > rarely if ever needed. check the nvramrc - does it have like two to 3 > pages of Forth code? then u have a patch in there - usually to sync > video, disk (?), and OF properly (it has issues with the disk and OF syncing > like the 7200 does, but on the 7500 can get an OF console on the box - no > need for a serial cable). what u could do if u really want to have that > boot-file arg. is zap OF (cmd-opt-O-F), but the video sync is going to > be annoying - u have to hit and hold down cmd-ctrl-power a couple > of times to get the OF console to show up properly. You mean Cmd-Opt-P-R to zap the PRAM? Are you sure that Cmd-Ctrl-Power enough times will get me an OF console? I have a small (<100 MB) OS 8.6 install that I was using to load Linux via BootX previously, but I'd rather not mess with that if I don't have to. > to make sure that quik writes to the bootblock, run quik -vf (force, > verbose). -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
