On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 02:10:47PM -0700, Thanasis Kinias wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm installing Woody on a StarMax 5000/300. It's got an IDE HDD and > SCSI CD-ROM and ZIP. It will not boot from the CD-ROM drive, so I have > to use floppies to install. I've gotten as far as ``Make System > Bootable''; unfortunately, after the installer puts Quik on the system, > it is not bootable.
(Free) bootable CDs are not possible for OldWorlds. > As I understand it, StarMaxes are considered NewWorld machines -- they > should use Yaboot then, not Quik, right? (I'm really not very familiar > with PowerPC hardware, having only done one installation on an iMac > before.) There is no boot floppy for NewWorld that I can find, only a > rescue.bin which is not bootable (shouldn't it be though?). No, they are OldWorld. NewWorlds don't have built-in floppy drives. > I assume it is trying to install a useless Quik because I used the > powermac instead of new-powermac, but I couldn't find another option. The difference between those two is the kernel, not the machine type. You can boot new-powermac on an OldWorld, but the kernel (2.4) is too big for a floppy; you have to use BootX. > If I am correct that this box needs Yaboot and not Quik, how do I get > that installed? ATM the box is not bootable except via floppy, and the > only bootable floppy I has just dumps me right to the installation. quik should work, but it often times has quirks. Do you get a boot: prompt? or a message from OpenFirmware? or does the kernel die after being booted? You might just need to pass video=ofonly to the kernel or something. The install manual gives some key combinations to try in order to boot into OpenFirmware and see what's going on. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance)
