by (I also sent this to the support email at linuxppc.org but I imagine they
are swamped with questions and though some of you might be able to help)
Ok First some details on my system:
G3/266 96 Megs Of RAM
The Mac OS is installed on the internal IDE 4.0 GB Drive that came with my
Mac and is in HFS+ format.
I recently got a 13 GB HD (internal EIDE) that I wanted to run LinuxPPC off
of so I partitioned it like this:
root - 160 megs
usr - 550 megs
opt - 330 megs
home - 230 megs
swap - 50 megs
All of the Above drives are in standard MacOS format (NOT HFS+)
Then I made 3 3.7 or so HFS+ partitions to use as standard Mac OS Drives
I boot off the floppy with g3installer.coff and then go through set up. I
repartition the 5 MacOS standard drives in Pdisk while the others I leave
the same as HFS+. I name them root, usr, opt, home and swap. Root was the
first writeable partition (5)
(at the start of the installer, the drive was listed as /dev/hdd/)
I chose swap as my swap disk and I do an FTP install. allowing usr, opt, and
home to also be mounted while selecting root as the root drive. And then I
run through the installer and it appears to install correctly. I do the
quick boot thing not filling in any extra parameters and setting it to boot
back into the MacOS on restart.
Boot X doesn't work on my computer for some reason it just quits on startup
of the app while Ram Doubler is on and While it is off also so I decided to
go with Boot Vars and Multibooter. In both, I used the same parameters as
in the Linux PPC boot guide like this:
That didn't work so then I changed the boot file to:
(since the drive was listed as /dev/hdd/ at the start of installation)
That to didn't work.
I think I tried almost every possible combination with no success. Any help
that you can give would be amazingly appreciated.
--Frank
p.s. Please tell me if there is any information that you need and I didn't
give you
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