Re: [LUG] Linux on (oldworld) PPC?

[Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Grant Sewell wrote:
|
| Matt, have you had success with these yet?  I've been having a few
| problems with regard to the OpenFirmware... any ideas how to get the
| damn things to boot from hdaX?  I've tried setting it to all the nice
| things written so-far, such as "ata/ata-disk@x:X" (where X is the
| partition #), and setting the load-base to 10000 (I think that's the
| right # of 0s), but I still have to resort to clearing the CMOS (or
| "zapping the P-RAM"... I think that sounds much better :D) and
| booting from floppy.

We followed destructions from the slackintosh site IIRC as regards QUIK
and booting, Matt said he would write it up.

Something like this - but maybe not this one.
http://mike.quintero.staff.noctrl.edu/slackintosh/

I think you need the kernel in /, and it mustn't be a symbolic link,
along with a myriad of specific firmware setting, and video=ofonly to
avoid something nasty happening to the screen on boot (on the Apple we
were liberating).

Last I remember it was booting from hard disk, but it wasn't fully
automatic - although by then I was distracted figuring out I needed the
monitor patch for my Orinoco driver in order to run airsnort/kismet etc
- - and I'm fairly sure it was only one step away from fully automatic.

The Matt did something horrid with apt once it was all happily
installed, he won't do that again ;)
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