Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

2001-05-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:50:51PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > > btw, can you please toss a \n in your message every once in a while? > > > like say every 72 characters. thanks ;-) > > > > Sorry about that. Netscape Mail is sometime

Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

2001-05-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:11:31AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > There used to be a problem with symlinks from / (I forget whether it liked > links to have a leading / or not, e.g. /zip -> /zip/boot worked but -> > zip/boot didn't or vice versa). I sent a patch to fix that before the pota

Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

2001-05-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > btw, can you please toss a \n in your message every once in a while? > > like say every 72 characters. thanks ;-) > > Sorry about that. Netscape Mail is sometimes good about that, sometimes > not. :-( It works for me when I both set the Me

Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

2001-05-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > i think quik's symlink code is quite unreliable, as a friend of mine > always had his 7200 fail to boot if quik was pointed at a > /boot/vmlinux -> /boot/vmlinux-2.2.1X symlink. /boot is on the root > filesystem, not a separate partition, i could not concieve of why this > c

Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

2001-05-02 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:49:02PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:19:43PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > yaboot uses at least a stripped down e2fslib... > > > > Quik does in fact use the ext2 libraries. It links them, at least :) > > oh it just uses the main ones

Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

2001-05-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:19:43PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > yaboot uses at least a stripped down e2fslib... > > Quik does in fact use the ext2 libraries. It links them, at least :) oh it just uses the main ones instead of a private copy like yaboot? ok > Adding symlink support would

Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

2001-05-02 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 05:17:05PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:41:56PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > > > > realpath(3) does all symlink following in all path components. > > (readlink -f uses it, in case you want to play with it to see how it works. > > See readlink(1

Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

2001-05-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:41:56PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > > realpath(3) does all symlink following in all path components. > (readlink -f uses it, in case you want to play with it to see how it works. > See readlink(1).) i haven't found the symlink code in quik yet.. just doing a quik lo

Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

2001-05-02 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 02:55:59PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 06:45:35PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > I think it does support symlinks, there's a lot of code in there dedicated > > to resolving them, and as evidence, I have /boot -> /zip/boot and > > /etc/quik

Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

2001-05-01 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 06:45:35PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > I think it does support symlinks, there's a lot of code in there dedicated to > resolving them, and as evidence, I have /boot -> /zip/boot and /etc/quik.conf > -> /zip/etc/quik.conf and it works fine. You just have to have th

Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

2001-05-01 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 08:54:29AM -0500, Kevin van Haaren wrote: > > > the default (for a rev 3 install anyway) is to use the symlink /vmlinux. > > Which points to /boot/vmlinux-2.2.18pre21. When I was having problems > > after using the install instructions on debian we

Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

2001-04-29 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 08:54:29AM -0500, Kevin van Haaren wrote: > > If anyone else tries this and you start out attempting to use the > instructions in the powerpc install pages on debian.org, you may need to > totally wipe your PRAM (zapping it via command+optin+p+r at reboot isn't > enough)

Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

2001-04-29 Thread Kevin van Haaren
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:49:28PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > then run: > > nvsetenv boot-device 'scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0' > > this assumes your scsi disk is ID 0, if its the regular apple one then > it is. if you're looking to compile a list of mac's this works on add the 7200/75. This

Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

2001-04-19 Thread Landry BRUNEL
I tryed this before your mail as the ultimate solution, and now it's OK. Thank you for yuor help, Landry. Philipp Kaeser wrote: > > [landry's request didn't go to the list, so if anyone > else has a good clue what to do with that troublesome > Mac, please let him know [and not *me*, thnx :) ]

Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

2001-04-19 Thread Philipp Kaeser
[landry's request didn't go to the list, so if anyone else has a good clue what to do with that troublesome Mac, please let him know [and not *me*, thnx :) ] > Thanks for the info. > After many tests with the tricky OF, I think I had lost the mac, no > prompt and no boot at all, the screen goes of

Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

2001-04-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 05:10:30PM +0200, Landry BRUNEL wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm trying to install debian (retreived yesterday on a mirror site), > without success (I'm not familiar with these platform). > > My procedure is : > 1 - boot from a floppy (made with a dd from the file boot-floppy-hf

Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

2001-04-18 Thread Michel Lanners
Hi, On 18 Apr, this message from Philipp Kaeser echoed through cyberspace: >> Nothing, I have a (?)floppy icon and it waits until I insert the boot >> disk. I can't boot from the HDD. Here is my problem ! >> Can someone help me ? AFAIR, OF is hopelessly broken for the 7200/8200's built-in displa

Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

2001-04-18 Thread Philipp Kaeser
hej, > Nothing, I have a (?)floppy icon and it waits until I insert the boot > disk. I can't boot from the HDD. Here is my problem ! > Can someone help me ? Either you're going to set up a small MacOS partition and use the BootX loader to launch you into linux, or you're going to use the quik boo