On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Nathan Raymond wrote:

> All <http://www.linuxppc.org/install/g3/> says is "It looks like there's a
> bug in the Open Firmware in the Power Mac G3s. We're tracking the issue,
> and will report back here as soon as possible."  There is no mention of a
> problem booting off the internal IDE drives.

They can boot linux-ppc/linux-pmac/linux-nom-du-jour fine off of a floppy
drive (although I'm told you may have to try two or three floppies before
you get one that works...), and I'm pretty sure that I remember reading
ppl saying that they were able to boot off of SCSI drives, but I could be
mistaken.

The internal IDE on those machines is a pain under MkLinux, too, though,
but part of that could just be some implementation quirk with the
particular model of drives they use.  Not sure on that one.


David

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