> I forgot (yes, I idiot) to run quik in the command line after that,
> rebooting the machine without the changes. But the ppc did not
> restart... I tried it with the rescue disk, with the same result. Is
my
> ppc dead? what can i do?
No, it just doesn't check the floppy drive anymore, but your d
> Does fbset work properly with woody on a starmax 3000? I have just
> put debian onto this machine and after configuring the xserver
during
> installation (800 x 600 with 16 bit colour) got horrible colours
when the
> desktop environment started (it looked like it may 16 colours - ie
not
> a bit d
> some people gave me the tip to reset the pram. i
> just wonder if it would break anything concerning
> debian?
I don't think so, except if you have some boot parameters in there.
I don't know how yaboot is working (or if you use yaboot at all), but
with quik you have to reconfigure your boot par
Hi,
I recently put a box to run as a mail gateway, so it has to run all
day long. Unfortunately, I'm not able to let the hard disk go to sleep
(or maybe It does, but I don't notice).
What I tried is issuing 'hdparm -S /dev/hda' and getting
read of some syslog entries but it doesn't seem to work
> Unfortunately the installer did not set up OF booting with quik
funtionally
> and I have no way to boot into the newly installed system since
there is
> apparently no way to set the kernel arguments (need root=/dev/hda8
in my
> case) when using the hfs-boot floppy. :-(
did you try to execute a
No guru, but maybe some help :-)
> I found the script to alter boot-floppies. My oldworld
> powerbook (wallstreet) now boots. But it would be nice
> to get it booting off the internal internal drive.
> When I do ofpath from Linux, it says
> /pci/mac-io/ata0/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2 for the device path
> Seems suspicious. Could one of the disks have a jumper in the wrong
> place, making it behave as master instead of slave? Would it help to
> remove some hardware?
the jumper was on 'CS' (Cable Select, I assume this sets software
control on the master/slave behavior ??). I put it back to master
Hi,
(please cc: me as I am not on the list)
I recently got an old SCSI hard drive, which I wanted to use on my Mac. The
problem is that Debian won't boot with the drive on the SCSI chain -- The
kernel panices during bootup (I get a message about a null pointer, then a
few lines of hex, and then th
Hi,
(please Cc: me as I am not on the list)
I recently found an old DOS-Compatibility card from Apple, which I took
away as it didn't work with MacOS>8
I was wondering if I could use it under Linux - I run potato standard with
kernel 2.2.19 on a 6400 Performa.
Best Regards,
Simon
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