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by **glenb** » Tue, 11 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Hi, I have had a boot problem with bootx and linuxppc2000 on my powerMac
7200/90 ever since I first installed it. When I am in the MacOS, and open
the bootX control panel, and click the "Linux" button, it boots to linux
just fine, but when I reboot out of Linux, and either wait the 8 seconds
or click Linux again in the BootX startup screen, the machine instantly
goes into what would appear to be a sleep state. The machine is on, but
responds to no commands, the monitor goes into a no power mode, and linux
is never given the chance to boot.

If I click MacOS, it will boot into the MacOS successfully, and I can
then, from there, open the BootX control panel, and boot to linux fine, it
just never works on a reboot.

When I first posted this problem on here I was told to try a different
version of BootX, I have now tried all version I coould find, and the
problem exists on all of them. It's a good thing the linux box is so
stable that I never have to reboot, and only do so if I am at the box,
but I would like to be able to reboot it remotely, and know that it will
be fine starting up on it's own.

Any ideas on what I can do to rememdy this would be greatly appreciated.
Is yaboot the answer?

Thanks,

--glen

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by **Jeremy Winic** » Tue, 11 Jul 2000 04:00:00

I also have a 7200/90 and have experienced the exact same problem you
have had. I had written earlier and received the same
suggestions that don't work. I have tried new kernels and different
versions of bootX. It did work a long time ago for me
when I still had a MkLinux installation with an earlier linuxppc kernel
and bootX version 1.03 or something like that.
Ever since I put linuxppc 1999 onto my machine (changed partitions and
did an essentially cold install), it has not worked.

By the way, have you ever gotten MOL to work on your 7200?

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by **Charlie Ming** » Thu, 13 Jul 2000 04:00:00

>It's a good thing the linux box is so
>stable that I never have to reboot, and only do so if I am at the box,
>but I would like to be able to reboot it remotely, and know that it will
>be fine starting up on it's own.

What about putting an alias to BootX in the Startup Items folder? When
you reboot, it would come up in MacOS and then tun BootX.

If BootX won't actually start Linux until you hit the <LINUX> button,
you can get a control panel called OK-Dokey that will automatically OK
any dialog box after some set period (eg, 2 minutes). Alternatively,
you may be aboe to config BootX to do this for you.

by **Stig S?rense** » Thu, 13 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Hi all!
Well, what can I say... Using an older BootX extension did the trick for me,
on my 7200/90.
I can only recommend Quik instead of BootX (Don't know how well it
integrates with MacOS, I kicked MacOS a long time ago). It's a * to set
up, but quite nice once it's done. Only problem is that you have to select
boot-options blindfolded on the 7200/90 'cause the OF is so full of bugs
(think I saw a patch for that in the FAQ).
MOL does indeed work on the 7200/90, can't remember the precise molrc
settings though (sorry). If I find 'em, I'll post 'em.

Regards
/Stig

Quote:> I also have a 7200/90 and have experienced the exact same problem you
> have had. I had written earlier and received the same
> suggestions that don't work. I have tried new kernels and different
> versions of bootX. It did work a long time ago for me
> when I still had a MkLinux installation with an earlier linuxppc kernel
> and bootX version 1.03 or something like that.
> Ever since I put linuxppc 1999 onto my machine (changed partitions and
> did an essentially cold install), it has not worked.

> By the way, have you ever gotten MOL to work on your 7200?

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