From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
To: Even André <even@lynweb.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: downgrading harddrive from 9.0
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 04:02:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000514040236.H12729@plato.local.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B53E4B2D.30F%even@lynweb.net>; from even@lynweb.net on Sun, May 14, 2000 at 03:05:00PM +0200
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On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 03:05:00PM +0200, Even André wrote:
>
> Hi, I've bought me one of those PowerBook Pismo G3's 400...
> When I try to boot into linux I get a "hda: lost interrupt" signal,
> the same as I had on my PowerMac G3 B/W...
> This is a problem with the Mac OS 9 hd driver, right?
>
> The problem is that I can't get the PowerBook to boot from my Mac OS 8.5 CD
> to downgrade my hd drivers to the 8.5 drivers.
> I've now updated my hd drivers with the fwb HDToolkit 4.0 app, this doesn't
> seem to work either.
> Shouldn't this work?
>
> The bottom line is, can anyone tell me how to downgrade my hd drivers (if
> this is what causing the problem), since the Drive Setup from OS 8.5 can't
> be loaded
> on my PowerBook w/ OS 9.04 ??
you don't.
the proper solution is "Don't use BootX, use yaboot"
you need to use yaboot, deal with it.
you can find a yaboot-faq on my web page (see my .sig)
(~/erbenson/doc/yaboot-faq.html) and a GNU/Linux based yaboot
installation utility. ybin (which also includes yaboot docs).
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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