Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

> > > compile your kernel >= 2.2.15pre14 with > > > # CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT is not set > > > > I gather the default LinuxPPC kernel has CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT=y ? (at least, > > my .config had it, generated by make pmac-config and make > > menuconfig)... Is it absolutely mandatory to remove this option? >

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Claus wrote: > in that situation it's: > boot ata0/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:5/boot/vmlinux root=/dev/hda5 > > you could set it for the future by > setenv boot-file /boot/vmlinux root=/dev/hda5 > 0 > boot ata0/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:5/boot/vmlinux-2.2.17 root=/dev/hda5 can't OPEN: ata0/

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

Hi Patrice! >: Image not found... try again >: boot: >: >: >: Should my /boot have been HFS? >: hey, hey, wait a moment, '/boot' belongs to your root partition! you've been creating an extra so called "boot" partition IIRC with pdisk? there is no use for it, forget this one.

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

>: >: init-code="dev /bandit/ohare/via-pmu backlight-on/" >: >: what does this mean exactly? given you are in OF: 'dev' seems to be forth's 'cd' and then you can see all the possible commands for the node you are with: '.properties' 'words' 'backlight-on' is a command needed in the days of

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

>: >: >: 0 > setenv boot-device ata0/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:5 >: ok >: 0 > boot Second-stage QUIK loader >: Type l, off, d >: boot: l >: >: Fatal error: Unable to open filesystem >: >: Image not found... try again >: boot: >: in that situation it's: boot ata0/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:5/boot

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > I gather the default LinuxPPC kernel has CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT=y ? (at least, > > my .config had it, generated by make pmac-config and make > > menuconfig)... Is it absolutely mandatory to remove this option? > > So what exactly do we lose by turning th

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 05:20:26PM -0400, Patrice LaFlamme wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Claus wrote: > > see my attached quik.conf (working on a 3400) > > init-code="dev /bandit/ohare/via-pmu backlight-on/" > > what does this mean exactly? > > The rest seems pretty self-explanatory..

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 05:00:49PM -0400, Patrice LaFlamme wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# pdisk -d /dev/hda > Edit /dev/hda - > Command (? for help): xP > Header: > map 6 blocks out of 63, media 8007552 blocks (512 byte blocks) > Map is writeable, but not changed > > Block0: > signature 0x4552 >

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

Hello, On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Claus wrote: > see my attached quik.conf (working on a 3400) init-code="dev /bandit/ohare/via-pmu backlight-on/" what does this mean exactly? The rest seems pretty self-explanatory... I'm compiling 2.2.17 right now. > compile your kernel >= 2.2.15pre14 with > # CONFI

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > because there are not 6 ugly Apple_Driver type partitions littering > your partition table ;-) ah ok... well, I knew for a fact that the drivers weren't there: the hard disk came from a NetWinder, and was never touched by MacOS... :) > which source tarba

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > Could you give me the output of starting pdisk as 'pdisk -d /dev/hda' > and then typing 'xP' ? > > I bet this only works on IDE machines... > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# pdisk -d /dev/hda Edit /dev/hda - Command (? for help): xP Header: map 6 blocks out

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 05:01:28PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > >Bear in mind that miBoot is incredibly tiny. It uses open firmware to > >access the disk, which is notoriously unreliable. > > > >We -might- be able to get away with a text config file - if i can get a > >mac developmen

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

> >Bear in mind that miBoot is incredibly tiny. It uses open firmware to >access the disk, which is notoriously unreliable. > >We -might- be able to get away with a text config file - if i can get a >mac development environment up I'll prod at it. No, miBoot doesn't use OF. It's a fake MacOS Syst

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:53:08PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > well, I found some more info on the net that basically said I need ResEdit > > to configure miboot, so... > > this is something i consider broken about miboot, it really needs to > parse a regular text configuration file like everyt

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > i remember years back when apple introduced the first IDE powermacs, > the 5400 (iirc) came with a really bizarre hard disk setup: it had no > partition table. yes thats right no partition table at all. just one > big ol HFS filesystem stuck on the raw d

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

> > I hope the output of pdisk -l /dev/hda is sufficient? :) > > yes this exactly what i wanted (mac-fdisk is pdisk, but with less > bugs) mac-fdisk is pdisk, with a slightly changed output format for the partition table listing, and pretty much the same bugs. If you know of any bugs in mac-fdis

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 12:07:58AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > I'm really quite baffled by this - I tried to get this to work many a > time... > > Could you give me the output of starting pdisk as 'pdisk -d /dev/hda' > and then typing 'xP' ? > > I bet this only works on IDE machines... >

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:48:02PM -0400, Patrice LaFlamme wrote: > > this is very interesting, you have NO macos drivers on this disk, the > > How can you see this exactly? because there are not 6 ugly Apple_Driver type partitions littering your partition table ;-) > ok, well, I got the source

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

Hi Patrice! >: >: Considering my partition map, how should I configure quik? see my attached quik.conf (working on a 3400) >: >: well, my problem is probably miboot. Let's see if we can get quik to work, >: and then work on the kernel thing... :) >: compile your kernel >= 2.2.15pre14 w

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:29:42PM -0400, Patrice LaFlamme wrote: > On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > > could you send me output of mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda (or whatever disk it > > is) i am curious if you some how had a driver partition. if they are > > really not needed that would be intere

Re: Interesting Disk Partitions (was - Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400)

On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:11:45PM -0500, Rick Cook wrote: > While waiting for the Debian 2.2 release (and more recently my Debian 2.2 > CDs), > I have installed YellowDog and SuSE on my 7300. This pdisk output peaked my > curiosity, so I looked at the disk that has SuSE on it using fdisk and pdis

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:29:42PM -0400, Patrice LaFlamme wrote: > > > > I hope the output of pdisk -l /dev/hda is sufficient? :) > > yes this exactly what i wanted (mac-fdisk is pdisk, but with less > bugs) heh. that's what I thought :) and more features ;) (can initialize partition map) >

Re: Interesting Disk Partitions (was - Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400)

On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:11:45PM -0500, Rick Cook wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb > > Disk /dev/sdb: 67 heads, 62 sectors, 1009 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 4154 * 512 bytes > >Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 1

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:29:42PM -0400, Patrice LaFlamme wrote: > > I hope the output of pdisk -l /dev/hda is sufficient? :) yes this exactly what i wanted (mac-fdisk is pdisk, but with less bugs) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# pdisk -l /dev/hda > > Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hda

Interesting Disk Partitions (was - Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400)

On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Patrice LaFlamme wrote: > On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > > could you send me output of mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda (or whatever disk it > > is) i am curious if you some how had a driver partition. if they are > > really not needed that would be interesting and useful. >

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > could you send me output of mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda (or whatever disk it > is) i am curious if you some how had a driver partition. if they are > really not needed that would be interesting and useful. I hope the output of pdisk -l /dev/hda is sufficient?

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 02:17:15PM -0400, Patrice LaFlamme wrote: > > > miboot won't work without macos disk drivers, the only way to install > > macos disk drivers is to partition with a macos partitioner then > > Interesting, since miboot _did_ work, without needing a MacOS at all... it does n

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > i figured as much, everything in linuxppc 2000 is very broken. i have > an account on a linuxppc2000 box and in about 15 minutes i found the Mine doesn't seem that bad.. screen works, I can type ` ... the only thing I can't do so far is compile a kernel.

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 06:29:15PM -0400, Patrice LaFlamme wrote: > hello, > > So here's what I did: > > I booted from the LinuxPPC 2000 CD. then on my P166, I gunzipped the > debian ramdisk.image.gz, mounted it, and got the mac-fdisk. I was rewarded > by a miracle: I could use mac-fdisk to creat

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

A little update.. I found a miboot.img dating from BootX 1.2, and now I can boot! Only problem is, my 180MHz 603 chip shows only 11.39 BogoMIPS :( I know this is related to a bug that was fixed in BootX 1.2. ... ok, but I can't seem to unsit BootX 1.2.2 from Linux (the only unsit util I found was

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

hello, So here's what I did: I booted from the LinuxPPC 2000 CD. then on my P166, I gunzipped the debian ramdisk.image.gz, mounted it, and got the mac-fdisk. I was rewarded by a miracle: I could use mac-fdisk to create and WRITE the partition map!! Then I could use the LinuxPPC Xinstaller to ins

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

Patrix, Mac OS 7.5.3 is available as a free download , upgradeable to 7.5.5, but without a floppy drive (and a Mac to download to and create disks on), I'm not sure how you'd proceed. (The download is a whole slew of floppy disk images.) You

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 08:51:40PM -0400, Patrice LaFlamme wrote: > Hello *, > > I want to install debian (or any PPC Linux for that matter, I am > becoming very desperate) on my PowerBook 3400. > > LinuxPPC can't install because I can't partition my hard drive. > Debian can't install because (wh

Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

Hello *, I want to install debian (or any PPC Linux for that matter, I am becoming very desperate) on my PowerBook 3400. LinuxPPC can't install because I can't partition my hard drive. Debian can't install because (why oh why???) the CD isn't bootable! (at least, the binary-powerpc-1.iso