Subject: Re: Removing BootX on Old World system
From: Brian Watson (bcwatso1@uiuc.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 07 2001 - 11:21:06 MDT
> >
>> I did not think this was possible? Has anyone had success in
>> completely eradicating Mac OS from their Old World system while
>> running linux?
>>
>> --Brian
>
>Use quik. It was probably installed with YDL 2.0 by default. At least,
>when I've gone through the install, it mentions something about installing
>quik right at the end.
>
>'man quik' and/or 'man quik.conf' for more information. And do a search for
>'quik' on google.com. If you screw things up, just remember that you can
>zap the pram to get it to boot back into MacOS.
>
>I haven't gotten quik to work yet with YDL 2.0. However, the 7200's I have
>were flaky in that regard even with Linuxppc 2000, so I haven't given up
>hope yet.
>
>In fact, it's possible to remove MacOS out of the loop entirely--even during
>installation. You can use the open firmware to tell the Mac to boot off of
>a floppy with a Linux kernel image. I think it's more elegant, but I'm sure
>it's a bit of a pain from the distribution developer end of things.
>
>Andrew Leahy
>aleahy@knox.edu
Thanks. I'm not really in a hurry to try it out, seeing as I finally
got my server up and running without problems for the second time.
The first time I had proftpd problems, so I had to completely
reinstall YDL. (I was getting lots of segmentation faults. Then I
tried to reinstall and none of the services were working correctly.)
Now everything's working fine. Besides, I like to be able to easily
switch between MacOS and Linux. Although, yes, I would like to see
and Old World system without any MacOS at all. It would just be neat
to remove the extra step of booting through MacOS to get into Linux.
Also, I haven't been able to access open firmware by pressing
option-command-o-f. Is there another sequence on old world systems?
It just boots into Mac OS.
--Brian
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