Hey Ted,
I've been searching the Web on this for a while now, and I have found
some solutions but they are really inconsistant and simply does not work
for me.
I don't think PPC use Lilo, it uses something called quik, or yaboot, or
miboot, or ... i dunno. Basically I can boot the installation program
from the floppies and install the base system. But i cannot restart the
installation program. The machine simply won't boot linux - it makes a
loud noise "boing-ing-ing..." and then starts the graphical interface as
though its going to boot Apple OS.
I can execute shell commands because there is an option on the menu
"execute a shell". As a newbie I can't do much with it anyway. I saw on
some Web sites that I can execute some wired commands to make the
machine boot, but it simply makes the matter worse, the screen goes
blank after reboot and nothing happens. I had to unplug the power lead
and take out the battery, leave it for a day or so in order for it to
work again.
There is no errors reported in the installation program, it does say
"making a bootable floppy" is not yet supported.
I am so fed up with this now but I somehow believe this machine can run
Debian...
thanks any way
Guy
ps. I hope we can meet sometime on campus Ted, send me a message when
you are in the lab
Ted wrote:
> Guangyue Liu <gxl00u@cs.nott.ac.uk> asks:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I've been trying hard to get Linux on my PPC 7200/90 for ages but just
>> can't get it to work...
>>
>> Spec:
>> Old world PPC 7200/90, 1G harddisk, 16RAM
>>
>> I have bought Debian 2.2r3 for PPC. I made the installation boot disk
>> successfully and i can go through half of the installatin fine. But the
>
>
> I dont know anything about Debian, or PPCs, but I'm sure someone
> else will answer you, who does know. But my guess is that it uses
> LILO to start up.
> Did you rerun lilo to point to the new boot-image after
> making/choosing a new kernel?
>
>> installation will NOT make the system bootable from hard disk or floppy.
>> I have tried quite a few different partition tables still no luck. I
>
>
> Exactly how far does it get?
> What (if any) error messages do you get?
>
>> could even execute shell commands and ping other machines on the LAN,
>> just cant get it to boot after reboot "the moment of truth".
>
>
> Do I understand right, that actually it does boot off something
> but not for a second time? Is this hardware that needs a power
> off/on reset before it will be in a known state?
>
>> If any of you guys have any PPC boot disk images, or knows how to
>> install debian on PPC 7200 please give me a hint, please !!
>>
>> thanks a lot
>>
>> Guy
>
>
> By the way, I think there's others in cs.nott.ac.uk using Linux
> in this group.
>
> Ted.
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