From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 04:02:36 -0800 From: Ethan Benson To: Even André Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: downgrading harddrive from 9.0 Message-ID: <20000514040236.H12729@plato.local.lan> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gTtJ75FAzB1T2CN6" In-Reply-To: ; from even@lynweb.net on Sun, May 14, 2000 at 03:05:00PM +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: --gTtJ75FAzB1T2CN6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 03:05:00PM +0200, Even Andr=E9 wrote: >=20 > 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? >=20 > 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? >=20 > 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.=20 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). --=20 Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ --gTtJ75FAzB1T2CN6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjkeldwACgkQJKx7GixEevxBwQCeLmAjw/G/bcqmPhBqZvebyyoa q/gAniowDNkHFaNFS7aECJ6QrFWt0rTz =uVsa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gTtJ75FAzB1T2CN6-- ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/