Guangyue Liu <gxl00u@cs.nott.ac.uk> writes:
> 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.
Did you come across these?
http://www.linuxppc.org/
http://www.penguinppc.org/
http://www.cs.nmt.edu/~linuxppc/
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/
> I don't think PPC use Lilo, it uses something called quik, or yaboot, or
> miboot, or ... i dunno.
Yes well I'm way out of my depth here. Never heard of em!
> Basically I can boot the installation program
> from the floppies and install the base system. But i cannot restart the
> installation program.
Is this 'installation program' something that runs on Apple OS?
Or is it a mini-linux that re-boots the machine when it starts up?
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.
Hmmm. Well I like the sound effects, but seriously, cant help much. Sorry.
I suppose the new boot-image should be on the hard disk by now, in a
ready prepared partition. You should see some sort of announcement as
soon as it even tries to start up. Each bit of it will try to add
something on the screen as it initialises itself, so you can see how
far it gets. So if that's not happenning, my guess is that something
is amiss at a lower level in the booting up sequence. Like youve not
got a PPC boot-image in place. Or its unsuited to your display hardware
or you havnt told some sort of ROM-based BIOS which disk partition to
boot from.
Come on Nottingham LUG, is there no-one here whos used a PPC?
> Guy
> ps. I hope we can meet sometime on campus Ted, send me a message when
> you are in the lab
I used to work there, 4-5 years ago. Out of touch now.
Theres a Tom Allender <txa99c@cs.nott.ac.uk> in this group sometimes.
Ted.
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