On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:58:40 -0500 "Eric C. Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 02:40:09PM +1300, Donald Gordon wrote: > > I have two PowerMac 7200/120, and a 1.2GB quantum fireball that I > > installed debian on. It boots on the machine that I ran the debian > > install on; on the other one, all I get is an icon of a floppy disk with > > a flashing question mark when I turn it on. If I put the disk back in > > the first machine, it boots; if I put it in the second, it doesn't. Both > > boot MacOS properly: what do I need to do to make the second machine > > boot Debian? > > You need to update your Open Firmware variables on the second machine > to boot the linux bootloader. You do that by booting into OF and > using the setenv command for the variables you need to change. > > The relevant ones for quik, which I use, are something like this: > boot-device scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0 > boot-file /vmlinux That worked! Thankyou! Thankyou! Thankyou! etc! don
