Bug#156710: BOOT error on new install to Mac Performa 6360 PowerPC

2002-08-21 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 08:11:23AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > As I mentioned before, try searching the list archives for Performa. > You can't search for 6360 because the indexing software doesn't index > numbers. But when I searched debian-powerpc for the last five quarters > on performa, I g

Bug#156710: BOOT error on new install to Mac Performa 6360 PowerPC

2002-08-21 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 05:58:50AM -0700, Al Smith wrote: > 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 driv

Re: Bug#156710: BOOT error on new install to Mac Performa 6360 PowerPC

2002-08-21 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 03:50:03PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > At 14:58 +0200 8/21/02, Al Smith wrote: > >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

Bug#156710: BOOT error on new install to Mac Performa 6360 PowerPC

2002-08-21 Thread Al Smith
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

Bug#156710: BOOT error on new install to Mac Performa 6360 PowerPC

2002-08-19 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 06:50:31AM -0700, Al Smith wrote: > > (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

Bug#156710: BOOT error on new install to Mac Performa 6360 PowerPC

2002-08-19 Thread Al Smith
> (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.

Bug#156710: BOOT error on new install to Mac Performa 6360 PowerPC

2002-08-15 Thread Chris Tillman
(Read this reply from the bottom up.) On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 04:41:00PM -0700, Al Smith wrote: > 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 > driv

Bug#156710: BOOT error on new install to Mac Performa 6360 PowerPC

2002-08-15 Thread Al Smith
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

Bug#156710: BOOT error on new install to Mac Performa 6360 PowerPC

2002-08-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 07:51:21AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > reassign 156710 boot-floppies > quit > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 01:25:22PM -0700, Al Smith wrote: > > Package: kernel > > Version: 3.0 woody > > Severity: critical > > > > The exact and complete text of any error messages > > printe

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Re: Bug#156710: BOOT error on new install to Mac Performa 6360 PowerPC

2002-08-14 Thread Herbert Xu
reassign 156710 boot-floppies quit On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 01:25:22PM -0700, Al Smith wrote: > Package: kernel > Version: 3.0 woody > Severity: critical > > The exact and complete text of any error messages > printed or logged: > CLAIM failed > > Exactly what you typed or did to demonstrate th