Tom Sadowski (TSadowski@publicabstract.com)
Tue, 30 Nov 1999 17:36:02 -0500
I feel I should post this in case someone else is having this problem.
--On Tuesday, November 30, 1999 2:53 PM -0500 Tom Sadowski
<TSadowski@publicabstract.com> wrote:
> I realize this may be a little presumptuous of me but I need to ask you a
> favor. I am a REAL new Linux user. I am just learning the basics of how to
> navigate the file system. Unfortunately my employer has given me the task
> of making our old ANS 500 do something useful. This means AIX needs to go.
> So I have started to load LinuxPPC on the system. I have it all working
> OK, but I am still not able to boot from the internal drives. Quik keeps
> erroring out saying Fatal error: Cannot open /dev/sda0. I think I am
> missing some of the necessary files. my /boot directory contains the
> following:
>
> System.map
> quik.conf
> second.b
> first.b
> vmlinux
> vmlinux.coff
> vmlinux.old
>
> could the problem be that I am missing files or am I suffering from
> another, quik related problem?
>
> I am using linuxppc R5 and used your install files and directions to
> install it.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
> Tom Sadowski
> tsadowski@publicabstract.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott R. Every [mailto:scott@emji.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 2:57 PM
To: Tom Sadowski
Subject: Re: Booting LinuxPPC on ANS 500
you are using a new version of quik(2.0) which ONLY works on IBM prep
boxes. I don't know why the linuxppc guys are putting it on their cd's as
it works for NO macs. use the older 1.3 version from www.yellowdoglinux.com
s
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