miboot on a 6400
Daniel Gimpelevich
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:36:22 -0700
Like I said, you can find it on the LinuxPPC 2000Q4 CD. But, since you can't
get that CD anymore, I have now uploaded it to
http://homepage.mac.com/danielg4/miBoot.bin from that CD. Enjoy!
--
"Consider that two wrongs never make a right, but that three do."
--National Lampoon
> From: sadfsdf <ydl@augustmail.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.yellowdog.general
> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:07:48 -0500
> Subject: RE: miboot on a 6400
>
>
> I've been looking for that version all over the place, where can I find it?
>
> Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> You have not told us which version of miBoot you are using (and saying 1.0a3
> means nothing; they're all 1.0a3). Where did you get this miBoot? Is it the
> version that comes with YDL? That version does not use boot.conf at all. The
> only version that does is the binary-only version that came with LinuxPPC
> 2000. All other versions must be configured using a resource editor such as
> ResEdit.
> --
> "No gnu's is good gnu's." --Gary Gnu, "The Great Space Coaster"
>
>
>> From: sadfsdf <ydl@augustmail.com>
>> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.yellowdog.general
>> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:12:37 -0500
>> Subject: Re: miboot on a 6400
>>
>> Currently im getting a tux with a red X on there. Ive been reading your
>> guide from april of last year
>>
(http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2003-April/
0>> 0
>> 6938.html)
>> but nothing seems to work, I press space and nothing happens I press tab
>> still nothing happens, i do command+alt+shift+del and I get miboot
>> saying "open error -43"
>>
>>
>> Alexander Holst wrote:
>>
>
>>>> Message: 10
>>>> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:14:48 +0300
>>>> Subject: Re: miboot on a 6400
>>>> From: nathan <nathan@incirlik.net>
>>>> To: "yellowdog general lists.terrasoftsolutions.com"
>>>> <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>>>> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> AFAIK, miBoot is really hard to get to work on the PPC/Performa
>>>> machines.
>
>>>
>>>
>>> Not really ;) - All my OldWorld Macs (5 in total) boot through it,
>>> even my beige G3 and my Performa 5200 :)
>>>
>
>>>> Why not get a copy of BootX 1.2.x. In my experience it's the easiest to
>>>> setup and use on the oldworld machines...
>
>>>
>>>
>>> Some people like their machines to be Mac OS free to save some disk
>>> space and to avoid licence issues ;)
>>>
>>> Hi sadfsdf,
>>>
>
>>>> My directory tree for the miboot partition is like this
>>>> |-- System Folder (note: Mac OS has blessed the folder)
>>>> | |-- Finder
>>>> | |-- System
>>>> | |-- boot.conf
>>>> |-- Linux Kernels
>>>> | |-- vmlinux-2.4.22-2f
>>>> | |-- vmlinux-2.24.22-2fBOOT
>>>> |-- ramdisk.image.gz
>>>> |-- boot.conf
>
>>>
>>>
>>> You have _two_ boot.conf files! Use one or the other - I assume miboot
>>> gets confused which one to use. I usually erase the one in the System
>>> Folder and use one at the root level of the HFS partition. It is
>>> easier to manage from the Linux side then, as you avoid the space in
>>> the "System Folder" in its path, which can cause some problems when
>>> using the command line.
>>>
>
>>>> My boot.conf is thus:
>>>>
>>>> init-message = "\n Welcome to YDL!\Press <TAB> for boot options.\n\n"
>>>> timeout = 50
>>>>
>>>> default = bootYDL
>>>>
>>>> image = vmlinux-2.4.22-2f
>>>> label = bootYDL
>>>> root = /dev/hda6
>>>> append = "video=valkyriefb3:vmode:14,cmode:8"
>>>>
>>>> image = vmlinux-2.4.22-2fBOOT
>>>> label = install_YDL
>>>> initrd = ramdisk.image.gz
>>>> initrd-size=16384
>>>> root = /dev/ram0
>>>> append = "video=valkyriefb3:vmode:14,cmode:8 text"
>
>>>
>>>
>>> Have you tried without any append = "video=..." line? It should work
>>> without that line. It will usually use 640x480 then, or the settings
>>> which have been left in the PRAM from the last time you had booted
>>> into Mac OS. 640x480 is enough to run the installer, after that you
>>> can try several commands (fbset, nvvideo | read the man pages of those
>>> two) to tweak video settings and find out about your graphics chip by
>>> consulting /var/log/dmesg. Also, as already pointed out by another
>>> poster, the video line should only read valkyriefb and not
>>> valkyriefb3, in case the machine does have a valkyrie chipset.
>>>
>>> Do you get a boot-screen with a landscape and TUX? If so, at least
>>> some part of miboot has loaded successfully. Increase the "timeout =
>>> 50" to "timeout = 100" so you'll have 10 secs of boot delay. This
>>> should suffice in most cases to get the monitor warmed up and to
>>> display the initial boot screen. Hitting the space bar during that
>>> first boot scree will get you into a boot menue.
>>>
>>> Your problem might also be, that miboot ignores the "default =
>>> bootYDL" line and will always boot the first set of entries in
>>> boot.conf after the timeout, which in your case would be the attempt
>>> to boot an installation that isn't there as of yet (or did you
>>> allready get YDL installed). From within the boot menue, you will be
>>> able to choose from your presets in boot.conf and customly add append
>>> parameters. After installation, put your preferred set of parameters
>>> as the first set into boot.conf, then automatic boot will start after
>>> the timeout period.
>>>
>>> Also, "root = /dev/hda6" seems a too early partition to hold a linux
>>> fs to me, as I assume you also have your mibbot partition on the same
>>> drive. A typical Mac partitioned drive looks as follows:
>>>
>>> Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/sda'
>>> #: type name length base ( size )
>>> 1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
>>> 2: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 54 @ 64
>>> 3: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 74 @ 118
>>> 4: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 192
>>> 5: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 704
>>> 6: Apple_HFS "Boot_Linux" 204800 @ 1216 (100.0M)
>>> 7: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 524288 @ 206016 (256.0M)
>>> 8: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 backup 3448560 @ 730304 ( 1.6G)
>>> 9: Apple_Free Extra 10 @ 4178864
>>>
>>> The the earliest partition, in my above example, to hold a Linux fs
>>> would be partition 7 and onwards. The root=... line specifies the
>>> partition which holds the file system that is mounted on / under
>>> Linux, _not_ the partition that holds the miboot loader. My example
>>> shows a drive that I only use to boot, hold my secondary swap space
>>> and a backup partition, as my Linux installation is on an IDE drive
>>> attached to an IDE controller (Promise Ultra 100 TX2), that is only
>>> visible to the Linux kernel, but not to the Mac (a PM 7500/100)
>>> itself. So I am forced to use a SCSI disk to hold my miboot partition.
>>>
>>> I hope that helps and "un-hardens" the use of miboot on a PPC/Performa.
>>>
>>> BTW, the Performa 6400 is a PCI machine, isn't it? If it is still a
>>> NuBus architecture machine, you need a different kernel. The kernels
>>> supplied on the YDL CDs won't work on a NuBus type machine. In that
>>> case, go to http://nubus-pmac.sf.net to get a kernel. You won't be
>>> able to follow the "normal" installation procedure though. Feel free
>>> to contact me in that case. I managed to get YDL-3.0 installed on my
>>> Performa 5200 from scratch. It needs some tricks though.
>>>
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>> Alex
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Alexander Holst
>>> Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences
>>> <holst [at] fh-pforzheim [dot] de>
>>> ph: +49 [0]7231 28-6837
>>> fx: +49 [0]7231 28-6040
>>>
>>>
>
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