F7T4 PPC installs fine, but won't boot

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Thu May 3 17:51:59 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 20:33 -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
> I successfully booted from the ppc boot.iso and did an NFS install. 
> When it came to partitioning the disk I selected to remove ALL 
> partitions and then selected the default LVM partition layout and all 
> the other bootloader defaults, etc.
> 
> The install completed successfully and I rebooted.
> 
> When the box comes up all i get is a folder in the middle of the
> screen with a flashing question mark. 

Hm, interesting. Can you boot into OpenFirmware (press
Command-Option-O-F while it's booting) and show output of 
'printenv boot-device' ?

Also show output of 'dir hd:2,\' and 'dir hd:2,\\'.

Then try 'boot hd:2,\ofboot.b`

-- 
dwmw2




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