Hi guys,
Thanks for all the help, its really appreciated !!
I downloaded this strange thingy "miboot.img" from mklinux.org and
rawrited it on a floppy. It booted up my system and now Linux is up and
running, hahahaha!
Not sure why miboot works. It now reboots fine, only thing is though, i
can't get the floppy out any more, theres not eject button. well its
gonna take some time to get used to but i'm sure it'll be fun.
have a good weekend guys
/home/guy
ps. maybe time to organise another meeting in a pub :-)
Graeme Fowler wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Guangyue Liu wrote:
>
>> 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
>
>
> [puts brain into stretchmode...]
>
> Hmm... having never run Debain on an old-world PowerMac, but successfully
> run both MkLinux and LinuxPPC, it sounds to me like you're missing the
> relevant MacOS extension and control panel.
>
> It *may* be possible to get the old MkLinux Booter extension/CP to point
> at Debian, since (at least on the Mac) they're both Mach kernel based.
> Point yourself at mklinux.apple.com and find the appropriate MacOS-side
> pieces, plonk 'em on your PPC in the right places (system
> folder:extensions and system folder:control panels) and grab (a) the right
> kernel file and (b) the right copy of <ahem> 'lilo.conf' :)
>
> Then when the Mac starts, it loads the System file, reads the appropriate
> extension before anything else and offers up a "Boot: MacOS or <whatever>"
> dialogue. Click the right button, and zing! off you go.
>
> There is no OpenFirmware on the pre-G3 PPC Macs, so they need this kludge
> as a workaround. Note that they still need a (smallish) Apple HFS
> partition to do it (or maybe extended HFS) which needs to have a bootable
> MacOS system folder on it.
>
> If you need some more pointers, I'm presently dredging my memory for how I
> used to fix things to make them work so let me know.
>
> BTW folks, it ain't LILO or GRUB or anything similar. It's a whole new
> world (or an old one!)
>
> Graeme
>
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