Subject: Re: Linux Boot Floppy?
From: Tommy Young (tommyyoung@mac.com)
Date: Sat Nov 11 2000 - 10:58:24 MST
This is not wwxactly solving your problem but I had this problem before
except with a pmac 8600. I had to disconnect the internal hd until after the
system looked for drives at boot. I put in a second hd with a system
installed from another machine, and botted of it, then reformated the
internal drive.
Tommy
> From: "Robert Vogt IV" <vogt@arborhost.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 10:50:09 -0500
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Linux Boot Floppy?
>
> To all,
>
> We have pseudo-dead Starmax 4200 which we would like to get going again
> (the machine refuses to boot, since FWB's HDT screwed up the partition map
> really badly). Since the MacOS insists upon mounting the drive, it freezes
> early in the boot process. Thus, I would like to get my hands on a PowerPC
> Linux boot disk (floppy) image. (Any form of PowerPC Linux is fine - YDL
> preferred, of course.) However, I can't find any. Most of the
> distributions (if not all) want a MacOS system folder... but I remember,
> from working with MkLinux several years ago, that they used to use a boot
> disk...
>
> Anyway - does anyone know how I might go about doing this? I can't burn
> the YDL rescue CD because the Starmax 4200 does not have a bootable CD-ROM
> drive.
>
> Thanks in advance for your assistance.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Robert Vogt IV
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