On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:26:50PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
>
> Has anyone ever thought about trying to re-burn the firmware in an OldWorld
> with the NewWorld version? Probably wouldn't want to risk a perfectly good
> box to debug it...
you can't. oldworlds had OF on a real ROM, not flash.
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:41:13PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:56:18AM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> > An aborted attempt to switch? It makes no sense to even have
> > the OpenFirmware code if it isn't used.
>
> Oh, it's used all right. Reading the disk is one
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:56:18AM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> An aborted attempt to switch? It makes no sense to even have
> the OpenFirmware code if it isn't used.
Oh, it's used all right. Reading the disk is one of those things it
just isn't used for, though.
They did a much better job
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:56:18AM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>
> You have forever destroyed my innocent faith in the beauty
> of Apple hardware. Shame on you! :-( I now declare the
> modern PC architecture to be a coherent and efficient design.
> Even the A20 line and MBR are looking good
Ethan Benson writes:
> what part of:
>
> Mail-Followup-To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Mail-Copies-To: nobody
> X-No-CC: I subscribe to this list; do not CC me on replies.
>
> don't you understand?
1. it is in the headers instead of the signature
2. it isn't handled by my crufty old UNIX
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 10:29:10AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:24:22PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > what part of:
> >
> > Mail-Followup-To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> > Mail-Copies-To: nobody
> > X-No-CC: I subscribe to this list; do not CC me on replies.
>
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:24:22PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> what part of:
>
> Mail-Followup-To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Mail-Copies-To: nobody
> X-No-CC: I subscribe to this list; do not CC me on replies.
>
> don't you understand?
Bwa ha ha ha, this stuff looks strangely familiar.
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 09:27:22AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> It won't be necessary - 1) only works on machines that have OF support for
> booting from CD I think. With no requirement for MacOS drivers on
> floppies, we can load a bootstrap from floppy directly.
OpenFirmware != MacOSROM
mibo
> Ethan Benson writes:
>
> > not quite, MacOS drivers are not required on floppies, they are on
> > everything else (hard disks, CDROMs etc). floppies are the only
> > exception and thats the only reason miboot boot-floppies are possible
> > in debian (thats what boot-hfs.bin is).
>
> Huh?
>
> 1.
what part of:
Mail-Followup-To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Mail-Copies-To: nobody
X-No-CC: I subscribe to this list; do not CC me on replies.
don't you understand?
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:49:27PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> Ethan Benson writes:
>
> > not quite, MacOS drivers are
Ethan Benson writes:
> not quite, MacOS drivers are not required on floppies, they are on
> everything else (hard disks, CDROMs etc). floppies are the only
> exception and thats the only reason miboot boot-floppies are possible
> in debian (thats what boot-hfs.bin is).
Huh?
1. firmware reads CD
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:10:50PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What kernel to use exactly: vmlinux.coff? vmlinux.gz?
> How to make the boot disk? using Miboot?
>
> What I have tried for now is to change the kernel of the Debian bootdisk,
> then bless the floppy with hattrib and try to
On 11-Oct-2001 Michael Schmitz wrote:
>> But there is no MacOs in this Mac anymore, and as far as I remember the
>> floppy
>> is not ejected (and that would not have been a big problem anyway).
>
> I must have missed that bit of information in your earlier posts. Your
> posts did sound like you c
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 10:04:32AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > a good explanation (or a link to an Howto or a FAQ on it) would be greatly
> > > appreciated. I really need to solve this problem...
> > >
> >
> > I can hazard a guess that the reason you're not hearing anything here, is
> > tha
> But there is no MacOs in this Mac anymore, and as far as I remember the floppy
> is not ejected (and that would not have been a big problem anyway).
I must have missed that bit of information in your earlier posts. Your
posts did sound like you could not make the disk bootable for some
non-techn
On 11-Oct-2001 Michael Schmitz wrote:
>> > a good explanation (or a link to an Howto or a FAQ on it) would be greatly
>> > appreciated. I really need to solve this problem...
>> >
>>
>> I can hazard a guess that the reason you're not hearing anything here, is
>> that the capability to make a boot
> > a good explanation (or a link to an Howto or a FAQ on it) would be greatly
> > appreciated. I really need to solve this problem...
> >
>
> I can hazard a guess that the reason you're not hearing anything here, is
> that the capability to make a boot floppy for powerpc's doesn't exist yet.
> You
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:10:50PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ethan Benson wrote:
> >
> I am going mad, since I have tried to make these Performa boot for may be 2
> months now...
> My situation is the following: these Performa are for use in a
> university, and since I can't make them boot
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