Re: Booting of PPC Installation on PowerPC/Mac impossible?
> > > Sorry if I missed something, but why don't you just use BootX?
> >
> > Because not everyone wants to keep MacOS around, I assume.
>
> Sure, I'm one of those people. But if it's between not having macos
> around or not using the machine at all?
I just wanted to recycle a mac we have here. Having in mind how easy it is to
install debian on i386 and sparc, I wanted to avoid the effort to run MacOS (I
never installed it and I never used it). If I would have an MacOS expert
around, I probably wouldn't mind.
> Many of you will remember that bootx was a great step forward when it
> came out because it eliminated *exactly these problems* that the
> original poster is having. But then, he's probably already lost
> interest in the discussion and waiting for his pc to arrive....
>
Guillaume didn't stop sending comments. The current state is that the 9500 can
read the quik bootstrap information from the HD but does not find a suitable
kernel:
> > > That's weird : macs usually makes one beng when boot tests are sucessful (your hear a
> > > crashing glass else), but I wasn't aware that it could beep several time. Did you try to
> > > remove fancy hardware and extra ram ??? Should not be necesary if the mac used to show
> > > the question mark when it tries booting macos (then all is fine except it cannot find a
> > > suitable system folder on either hd, cd on floppy to boot from)
> >
> > I was wrong here:
> >
> > the beeps in between the mac bengs come from the monitor. And the two bengs
> > (and the beeps) are only there if I reboot from the linux installation
> > procedure.
>
> Thats cool ! it means that the 9500 can correctly read the quik bootstrap information from the
> hd, since it must reset the computer to give linux the ability to take over(it has something
> to do with the init of the scsi busses I believe).
> Each time you reset the PRAM, you reset the 9500 to "macos mode", quik makes it return its
> into "linux mode", resets it and then hangs.
> So we narrowed the problem to this: your quik cannot fnd a suitable kernel, check quik.conf
> and the state of the system installed !
>
Thanks.
Rainer.
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