Re: Continued problems booting Debian on oldworld G3

2001-12-11 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:34:41PM +, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > After an inspirational look at the boot-floppies todo list, I think I > > found the answer. At > > > > www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html > > > > there are comments about your mac

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2001-12-11 Thread Wayne Pascoe
Sorry to toppost, but please ignore my previous message, the beginnings of which are described here. I have made (some) progress by setenv boot-device ide/@0:0 I will post new problem in a separate thread. Wayne Pascoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >

Re: Continued problems booting Debian on oldworld G3

2001-12-11 Thread Wayne Pascoe
Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After an inspirational look at the boot-floppies todo list, I think I > found the answer. At > > www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html > > there are comments about your machine, the main one being that you > need System Disk to update your broken fir

Re: Continued problems booting Debian on oldworld G3

2001-12-09 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 02:33:24PM +, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Does anyone know if the stuff with System Disk needs to be done BEFORE > or AFTER the Debian install ? It's a firmware fix, I think it needs to be applied before. > > Also, will it work running under the classic environment in OSX ?

Re: Continued problems booting Debian on oldworld G3

2001-12-09 Thread Wayne Pascoe
Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After an inspirational look at the boot-floppies todo list, I think I > found the answer. At > > www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html > > there are comments about your machine, the main one being that you > need System Disk to update your broken f

Re: Continued problems booting Debian on oldworld G3

2001-12-08 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:00:43AM +, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Hi all, > > I followed some of the advice that I received here about moving the > partition I was trying to boot with quik to in front of the macosX > partition. This still failed. > > I have now abandoned the idea of dual booting fo

Continued problems booting Debian on oldworld G3

2001-12-08 Thread Wayne Pascoe
Hi all, I followed some of the advice that I received here about moving the partition I was trying to boot with quik to in front of the macosX partition. This still failed. I have now abandoned the idea of dual booting for the moment and am just trying to boot debian on this beast. I booted off