On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:00:22PM -0700, Henry House wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:29:35AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > [...] > > So, you have 3 floppies now, right? > > > > boot-floppy-hfs.img root.bin rescue.bin > > > > And you're using boot-floppy-hfs.img amd root.bin during > > the boot, and rescue.bin during the kernel install? > > I ended up doing a net install with only two floppies (hfs-boot and root). > Very convenient :-). > > Unfortunately the installer did not set up OF booting with quik funtionally > and I have no way to boot into the newly installed system since there is > apparently no way to set the kernel arguments (need root=/dev/hda8 in my > case) when using the hfs-boot floppy. :-(
You can use a binary editor to set that in the image, or the sometimes- working perl script at cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/powerpc-specials/miBoot/patch-floppy-image.pl Did it give an error? Do you have access to OF? What messages do you see? -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance)
