Re: [TCLUG:23056] m68k Linux floppy no-boot

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

that's new.. last time i tried it, you had to do the macos boot loader
thing.  booting directly to linux/bsd didn't work

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Bill Layer wrote:

> Hi Ben.. Far be it from me to snap to judgement and call anyone "wrong", so 
> rather than bringing my own potentially warped belief system further into 
> this debate, I'll paste this excerpt from:
> 
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-m68k/2.2.16-2000-07-14/R 
> EADME.txt
> 
> ** Specific Files of Interest
> Using the descriptions above, you need to select the directory
> containing the set of files which is appropriate to the installation
> you are doing. You will need all of the following `.bin' images,
> unless marked otherwise.
> .../rescue.bin
> Rescue disk image, containing the kernel and a boot loader.
> .../root.bin
> Root disk image, containing the root file system.
> 
> And this excerpt, from the same README file, which offers a suggestion as 
> to the manner in which these files are to be used:
> 
> ** Writing Image Files to Floppies
> You can write the *.bin disk images to floppies with dd. Replace
> `<file>' with the name of the image file in the following command:
> dd of=/dev/fd0 if=<file> bs=1024
> 
> It seems like I should mention that I am acquainted with the (somewhat 
> involved, but still fairly trivial) process of installing BSD on a 
> Macintosh - I have NetBSD running on one of the SE/30's already. I am 
> prepared to perform a normal install (over a network, from local drive, or 
> from a CD) but I thought it would be prudent to at least see the machine 
> boot a "rescue floppy" once before I committed myself to the entire process.
> 
> I noticed while reading the Install README, that 32bit addressing must be 
> enabled for the normal bootloader (via MacOS) to succeed. Since 32bit 
> addressing is *not* enabled by default on the SE/30 (this is a quirk, some 
> say error in the SE/30 ROM), I am wondering if this is the reason that the 
> machine would not start from the floppy. If enabled, will Mode32 persist 
> between warm boots? I think you see what I am getting at here..
> 
> As always, Bill.
> 
> 
> 
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