On Fri, Jun 15, Smith, Bradley wrote:
My hardware is an iMac, Indigo, 350MHz. It's from the range just before the flower power and blue dalmation iMacs came out.
I have managed to install Suse Linux 7.1 okay. My biggest problem is getting a dual boot working betweek Mac OS 9.1 and Linux. I can't use BootX so I am using a combination of os-chooser and yaboot.conf with yaboot.
I have followed the instructions in the manual and even tried modifying the Open Firmware but whenever I set my HFS formatted linux "boot" partition as the startup disk I just get a white screen and have to hit the reset button. I've checked and double checked the partition information in the os-chooser file (which has been marked as bootable using the supplied program) and yaboot.conf but to no avail. Am I wasting my time? Is it actually possible to get my iMac to dual boot?
Can you go to the OF prompt with "command+alt+o+f" and type printenv boot-device It should point to your boot partition. What happens if you type "boot"? There is a nasty bug in the manual. It says that you have to copy the "suseboot" folder onto the Linux boot volume, that is not really needed. When you configure lilo it will create a "os-chooser" file with type tbxi, but there is already the "Mac OS Rom" file with type tbxi and that one tries to access your CD. Just remove that "Mac OS Rom" file in the suseboot folder.
Second problem is the sound. When it first installed I had sound working except that there was no way to modify the volume. it was always on maximum volume! However, after using Yast2 to try and reinstall the sound card drivers it now tells me it has detected my hardware (awacs) but when it tries to update the config file I get an error and it tells me that it must have detected my hardware wrong.
strange, does "alsaconf" work for you? You have to run "alsamixer" after that. Do you get any errors when you run "depmod -ae"?
Third problem is that the graphics seem slow. Moving a window under KDE2 is really, really slow. My old rev.A iMac with the Rage II C graphics card was faster! Is there anything I can do to speed it up?
This should be easy to fix with "sax2 -af" in console mode. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...