On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 12:44:01PM +0200, Tamas Nagy wrote:
>
> It seems that the 'quik' bootloader doesn't work from Debian installer
> with PowerMac 4400/200. The other boot possibility would be a 'boot
> floppy' which after selection informs me that 'boot floppy' is not valid
> option...
You can (probably) boot from hfs formatted floppy. Just copy
vmlinux.coff to floppy and when booting enter into OpenFirmware:
0> boot fd:vmlinux.coff kernel_arguments...
Note that with recent 2.4 kernels there are some problems with COFF
images..
> Is there any way to boot the installed system from MacOS or from a
> custom made boot-floppy?
I use quik with great success..although i must admit it didn't work out
of the box after install. I have a PowerComputing box which is a bit
different than yours i guess..but not much.
My boot config:
Mac partition type.
/boot is on /dev/sda2(ext2 fs, 12MB). All files necessarry for boot
are placed inside:
System.map-2.2.22
System.map-2.4.21-pre7
boot
first.b
quik.conf
tt
System.map-2.4.19
blast
lost+found
second.b
zorg
/boot/quik.conf:
# quik -f -v -r /boot -C /quik.conf
# ^^^^^^ this is how i run quik..only need to run it once
# after adding new kernel image to /boot you anly need to modify
# quik.conf for the changes to take effect
#
timeout = 50
default = zorg
partition = 2
append = "video=imsttfb:vmode:12 devfs=nomount"
# 2.2.22
image = /tt
root = /dev/sda3
label = tt
read-only
# 2.4.19
image = /blast
root = /dev/sda3
label = blast
read-only
# 2.4.21-pre7 - testing swim3
image = /zorg
root = /dev/sda3
label = zorg
read-only
NVRAM parameters:
little-endian? false
real-mode? false
auto-boot? true
diag-switch? false
fcode-debug? false
oem-banner? false
oem-logo? false
use-nvramrc? true
real-base 0x7f00000
real-size 0x100000
virt-base 0xffffffff
virt-size 0x100000
load-base 0x4000
pci-probe-list 0xffffffff
screen-#columns 0x64
screen-#rows 0x28
selftest-#megs 0x0
boot-device scsi-int/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0
boot-file
diag-device fd:diags
diag-file
input-device kbd
output-device /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/IMS,tt128mb8
oem-banner
oem-logo
nvramrc : slowboot begin
." Waiting for boot device.." cr d# 1000 ms
boot-device ['] $boot catch drop
key? until ;
boot-command slowboot
Note that your settings _will_ be different since u have different hardware.
--
Boris
