Re: ATA booting problems & solutions

2001-03-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 09:34:02AM -0800, Benjamin Kite wrote: > Woogy. It looks like the fact that I have a 2.0 firmware is keeping me > from being able to boot. > > Would any of these help?: > > > - Upgrading my OpenFirmware (where can you get replacement ROMs?) hahaha don't we wish ;-

Re: ATA booting problems & solutions

2001-03-11 Thread Benjamin Kite
Woogy. It looks like the fact that I have a 2.0 firmware is keeping me from being able to boot. Would any of these help?: - Upgrading my OpenFirmware (where can you get replacement ROMs?) - Creating an iso9660 filesystem on one of the partitions ( read 2.0 can r

Re: ATA booting problems & solutions

2001-03-09 Thread Benjamin Kite
Prior to now, Ethan Benson wrote ::: :: :: > Problem 1: "ofpath" doesn't work on my system :: :: whenever you do this get booted, could you send me a tarball of :: /proc/device-tree ? with this i can add support to ofpath. :: I can do that from that HFS boot disk. I'll send that off to

Re: ATA booting problems & solutions

2001-03-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:08:37PM -0800, Benjamin Kite wrote: > Prior to now, Ethan Benson wrote ::: > :: > > I'm convinced that quik succeeded in putting the bootblock on /dev/hdb2, > (or at least I'm going to pretend to be for now) so I'm going about trying > to boot from that partitio

Re: ATA booting problems & solutions

2001-03-08 Thread Benjamin Kite
Prior to now, Ethan Benson wrote ::: :: I'm convinced that quik succeeded in putting the bootblock on /dev/hdb2, (or at least I'm going to pretend to be for now) so I'm going about trying to boot from that partition. Problem 1: "ofpath" doesn't work on my system Problem 2: The

Re: ATA booting problems & solutions

2001-03-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 10:50:01AM -0800, Benjamin Kite wrote: > Solution: > > 1. If anybody else is still having trouble with the HFS boot disk > locking the keyboard (or not recognizing ADB input) on an old- > world macintosh, there is a bootable floppy floating around th

Re: ATA booting problems & solutions

2001-03-07 Thread Peter Cordes
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 10:50:01AM -0800, Benjamin Kite wrote: > 1. Is it so odd for the only disk in an oldworld macintosh to come > up as /dev/hdb? Is it such a bad thing that it's probably making > things confused at boot-time? I think that's ok. The linux IDE drivers