Re: getting debian to boot on oldworld G3
From: Lee Cremeans (lee_at_lcremeans.homeip.net)
Date: 10/19/03
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Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 23:11:05 -0400
annelies wrote:
> hi all
>
>
> i've been trying to get a freshly installed debian to boot on my beige
> G3 (oldworld). this is how i went about:
>
> - started from debian bootdisk, inserted rootdisk and installed debian
> over network. install went perfectly fine
> - i chose to install quik at the end of the install, using an edited
> first.b file for my beige g3 (as can be found in the debian ppc manual
> on debian.org)
> - i rebooted and came at the open firmware prompt
>
> and that's where i got stuck. i can't seem to use 'boot' to load debian,
> and it seems as if quik has not edited the environment variables. so i
> changed them manually, but still can't get debian to boot.
> when i type 'bye', and MacOS starts and shows me the floppy with the
> question mark, i insert the debian ppc rescue disk, but the floppy gets
> ejected.
What errors are you seeing when you try to boot from Open Firmware?
There's a G3-specific bug in quik that keeps it from working right
(DEFAULT CATCH! 0x0FFFF0400, IIRC) when you run it on a G3 processor. I
made up a formal patch (based on code Michel Lanners originally wrote)
and it's in the version of Quik unstable uses. If you want, I can give
you the first.b off my 7600 to try.
To get back to OF, hold down Cmd-Opt-O-F just after you turn the power
on. It should go to the OF console; if not, you'll need a MacOS boot
disk and either the System Disk program from Apple, or Boot Variables.
Let me know if this is the case.
-lee
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