bootloader installation

Horst Günther Burkhardt III horst at sxemacs.org
Tue Oct 7 17:28:12 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 03:51 +1030, Shane Ambler wrote:
> What machine is this on, an old beige G3?
> 
> Is your problem the 8GB limit? Try having the kernel in a partition that 
> is completely inside the first 8GB.

GOD NO.

It's a ppc7400. Graphite Power Mac G4 400MHz ADC/GigE model. 

Using hd0:11 as the target allows the bootloader to Do Something (tm)
but I have found the next glitch: 

0 > boot cd:,\boot\loader hd0:11,   load-size=39748 adler32=bb45cad1

Loading ELF


CLAIM failed
  ok
0 >



^^ What the fsck?!
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