From the suggestions received (thank you all very
much) I reconfigured the hard-drive with a 45 meg
Apple partition, added BootX, and a copy of the kernel
from the distribution disks.
Reconfigured the remaining space as the Linux
partitions, reinstalled Linux, and it properly
launches Linux fr
Restarting from scratch...
I reset all the pram to factory defaults (Cmd+Opt+p+r
) before starting the install.
I completely repartitioned the drive.
64k for the partion map (hda1 by default)
/ has remainder of 1.2g drive (hda2)
64m for swap. (hda3)
Booting from floopy, running the install
> (Read this reply from the bottom up.)
>From the bottom up...
> It often happens, after a failed boot, that OF is
> hopelessly hosed.
> Use reset-all to get a fresh copy.
>
reset-all command issued
> Here you had quik loaded! I think just changing your
> boot-file
> to Linux will let it boot.
I have visited the netBSD site, and that has lead me
to use the settings below (after running the firmware
commands you listed).
The boot-device setting has me confused - it is an IDE
drive, but most examples are SCSI. I noticed the line
FF83A798: /ATA-Disk@0,0
and tried changing boot-devi
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