Hello all, This is no doubt old hat to all you dyed in the wool linux people, but I'm fairly new to the game and so I am having a few problems. I'll briefly tell you what I have done and where I have gotten stuck at.
Downloaded woody CD images (first two only for the time being - CD#1 is NONUS version) and burned ISO images. Downloaded the two boot install images and made floppies. Backup up all my Mac OS stuff off my internal IDE (1.2GB) HD. Inserted floppy 1 and booted. Inserted floppy 2 at request and got to install menu. Chose language, chose kbd, etc and made it all the way through to make system bootable. As far I could tell everything was fine and I installed the base system and kernel. I partitioned the HD so that there is a partition map at hda1(few KB), a linux native at hda2 (1.1GB) and a linux swap at hda3 (100MB). Once I made the system bootable (using quik), I restarted. The first time I did this all I got was a blank screen. I then went off and read about quik and open firmware. I also tried zapping the pram. This didn't help. I then booted back into the boot floppies and once everything got going, I opened a second consol and used nvsetenv to look at and alter the firmware: Set input/output devices to kbd and screen. Auto-boot left set at true. Set boot-device to ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0 no boot-file set On restart I get a white screen with some text on it about quik second stage boot, woody.., then a boot: prompt. I tried entering "linux", "boot", "vmlinux". It kept asking for a path to the kernel. So I tried things like dev/hda2/vmlinux, etc. None of these worked. Back into the install process again and using a second consol showed that there does not appear to be a linux kernel on the HD. From what I understand it should be at the root (/) directory. All there is at that place is "rclinux". There is no "vmlinux". From what I read, this is what the kernel should be called. The install manual mentions very little about anything like this and basically says quik will set up everything. Presumably I am missing something very simple. I did see a "quirk" of "quik" for the starmax where it said what the boot-device should be set to (as above) and somewhere else that is said you usually do not need to set a boot-file. To be honest, I am getting lost in all the firmware and quik stuff. As I said above, I can't find vmlinux anywhere on my HD and I also can't find a quik.conf file. Without either of these, I would imagine that linux can't boot. It might also explain why all the common suggestions for solving problems by entering "default values" (like debian, or linux, or vmlinux) don't work. Can anyone give me some pointers and indications as to how to proceed and why vmlinux and quik.conf don't appear to be on the HD even though the installer should have installed them? Many thanks in advance, Nick.
