Very Computer

> i have been having a series of problem getting linuxppc to boot correctly on
> my beige G3 300.
>  I successfully installed the system and software from R5 and was able to
> successfully boot it for about three weeks.  I had a few problems with the
> white box from bootx at  startup, but those usually could be gotten around
> by zapping PRAM and such.  however, i brought the box to campus and managed
> to get it up and running on the network for about a day.  I then rebooted
> into MacOS to work on a few things, and since that reboot I have not been
> able to successfully boot into Linux- i get the white box at the BootX
> screen .  I know  that (at some point) i have , or had a working LInux
> system.  is this white box a bug in the macos/bootx side of things?   The Os
> that i am using to boot linux is a completely pared down system with
> basically nothing but the BootX extensions installed, as to avoid conflicts,
> and this was the only way that i was able to get a successful install in the
> first place.  however, now it seems that this second system is cursed as
> well, and nothing i can do seems to shake it...

> is this a problem with my Linux system, or BootX/MacOS?  if this is a bootx
> problem, then is there a way around it?  I have been looking for OF
> instructions without much luck...

> if anyone out there can help me it would be greatly appreciated...

>> i have been having a series of problem getting linuxppc to boot correctly on
>> my beige G3 300.
>>  I successfully installed the system and software from R5 and was able to
>> successfully boot it for about three weeks.  I had a few problems with the
>> white box from bootx at  startup, but those usually could be gotten around
>> by zapping PRAM and such.  however, i brought the box to campus and managed
>> to get it up and running on the network for about a day.  I then rebooted
>> into MacOS to work on a few things, and since that reboot I have not been
>> able to successfully boot into Linux- i get the white box at the BootX
>> screen .  I know  that (at some point) i have , or had a working LInux
>> system.  is this white box a bug in the macos/bootx side of things?   The Os
>> that i am using to boot linux is a completely pared down system with
>> basically nothing but the BootX extensions installed, as to avoid conflicts,
>> and this was the only way that i was able to get a successful install in the
>> first place.  however, now it seems that this second system is cursed as
>> well, and nothing i can do seems to shake it...

>> is this a problem with my Linux system, or BootX/MacOS?  if this is a bootx
>> problem, then is there a way around it?  I have been looking for OF
>> instructions without much luck...

>> if anyone out there can help me it would be greatly appreciated...

> answering my own questions

> i restarted in Open Firmware, fooled around a bit but couldn't get anything to
> work
> set variables back to defaults, and then used a Bye to start up MacOS

> when the BootX screen came up I booted into Linux without a problem...

> I attribute this to forces none other than the supernatural.