On Mon, 02 May 2005 19:13:55 +0200
Maximilian Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> far. But when the laptop rebooted to start into the newly installed OS
> nothing happens.
> I hear the hdd spinnung up and down, but nothing gets loaded.
>
> Are there any ideas which black magic is required to get
Hi all,
This is starting to drive me crazy by now so I hope someone has got an
answer.
I'm trying to install Debian on my Powerbook G3 (wallstreet)
Base install seems to work allright, but I can't get the system booted.
quik doesn't seem to work, and when I try bootx I get the following
message:
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 21:29, Christian Leimer wrote:
> I dont use BootX. But make sure you have copied the initrd and the
vmlinux
> to the macos folders and slected the initrd as ramdisk?
That is just the problem, how do I copy the initrd to the macos folder?
>From macos I can't get to the ext2 pa
On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 16:49, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> > That is just the problem, how do I copy the initrd to the macos folder?
>
> "Execute a shell" from the main installer menu, chroot into your newly
> installed system, mount your Mac OS partition, copy the kernel and
> initrd over.
Tnks, then
On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 11:36, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> > Tnks, then I get the error:
> > mount: /dev/hd8 has wrong device number or fs type hfs not supported
>
> Load the hfsplus module before attempting to mount the partition.
Thnks, got it working now.
Now the next step, is there any way to get
On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 06:50, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I put this aside when I first received it to answer later, then got
> busy and forgot to answer! I apologize!
>
> Did you figure out how to solve your problem? If not, please reply
> and I'll try to help.
> > For the moment I have macos instal
On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 20:08, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > For the moment I've got it working with bootX but I would really
> > like to
> > get it working with quik.
> >
>
> Unfortunately, that part has never worked for me, either.
>
> For what it's worth, using BootX isn't so bad. You can fairly
> e
On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 01:08, Rick Thomas wrote:
> >>> For the moment I've got it working with bootX but I would really
> >>> like to
> >>> get it working with quik.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, that part has never worked for me, either.
> Wow, you're doing much better than I am. On the other han
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 05:42, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Actually, miboot is a fully-fledged bootloader. The only thing it
> needs is a very small HFS partition to run out of (just big enough
> for the initrd image and the compressed kernel -- plus the miboot
> program itself, of course!). It masquer
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 05:30, Rick Thomas wrote:
> The Debian developers use quik (and avoid miboot and BootX) for
> reasons of political correctness. BootX and miboot use some binary
> code that is lifted verbatim from Apple's boot disks. They are
> therefor "not free" of Apple's intellectual p
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 10:17, Sven Luther wrote:
> > I'm not sure what the problem with quik is, actually. I've avoided
> > using it because it requires messing with Open Firmware. The
> > to me, it just doesn't seem worth while spending the time on it
> > given that BootX works so well for me.
On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 06:54, Rick Thomas wrote:
> ROM compatible disk and CD drivers. b) They can put up with the
> vagaries of Open firmware and quik for their particular hardware.
> Personally, I think alternative (b) is not viable either -- it's
> just too much pain for anyone to put up
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