[olug] LINUX on PPC : booting after installation

[Sean Edwards]

I have a Blue and White G3 running Debian, it was no
problem to boot the CD from OF and install.  It is the
Beige G3 which vex me!

-=Sean=-

--- Tim & Alethea Larson <thelarsons3 at cox.net> wrote:
> gvanmill at unmc.edu wrote:
> 
> >Well OK, I didn't think booting was system
> specific.  The system is a 
> >Blue/white G3 that was torn down except for the
> CPU. So I took PC parts to 
> >replace every thing except for the video card which
> I borrowed from a MAC 
> >friend(doesn't do linux) ATI 128.  So I put in 64
> Meg RAM, 2 gig hard 
> >drive and a CD-ROM.  Last night I tried the
> "Command option o f" sequence 
> >to get to the Open Firmware 2.x (I didn't pay
> attention to what x was). 
> >Then I tried the "boot hd:0,yaboot" on it, but it
> errors out, so I tried 
> >1,2,3,4,5, which errors out as well.  For YDL, I''
> have to check, because 
> >I can't remember what version it was.  I think it's
> about 6 months old 
> >since I down loaded it.  The machine never came
> with a mac-os, since the 
> >hard drive was from a PC architecture.  I thought
> that when I installed 
> >YDL, I choose yaboot for the 1st partition, / for
> the second partition, 
> >and swap for the 3rd partition.  The tests I've run
> above seem to me that 
> >yaboot didn't get loaded.  Also, the system doesn't
> have a floppy drive, 
> >only a CD-ROM.
> >  
> >
> Hmm, I was always under the impression that New
> World booting with OF 
> was relatively straightforward.  Have you read all
> the online 
> documentation at yellowdoglinux.com already?  IIRC
> it pretty much walks 
> you through it.  If not, they do have their own
> mailing lists.  Also, 
> lowendmac.com has a Unix mailing list that I've
> found helpful in the past.
> 
> 
> 
> Tim
> 
> -- 
> Tim & Alethea
> www.ChristTrek.org
> 
> 
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