[plug] linux on an imac

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

On 8/21/06, Arie Hol <arie99 at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> On 21 Aug 2006 at 13:47, Gavin Chester wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 13:38 +0800, Daniel J. Axtens wrote:
> > > I may be wrong, but I thought you needed to hold down Apple-C....
> > >
> > > Daniel
> > >
> >
> > Thanks.  Whether that combo, or any others suggested, it seems that no
> > matter what key combo I try I can't get anything other than the
> flashing
> > mac/?.  Very frustrating.  I'd be tempted to think that I didn't
> connect
> > something internal correctly, but then it's a pain to pull it all apart
> > again :-(.  OTOH, if I was doing it right I should be able to get to
> the
> > OpenFirmware even if the drives were disconnected, surely? :-/
> >
>
> Just guessing here -
>
> Does the BIOS need to be told that there is a different HDD even though
> the original HDD was replaced with a similar/identical HDD ?
>
> Is there a particular way of preparing a HDD as a boot device in an IMac
> ?
>
> Is the HDD configured as a slave or a master?
>
> Like I said, just guessing here.
>
> Regards Arie
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The HDD does need to be master in such machines, but booting from the
CD should be regardless of that for now anyway. It would only fail on
subsequent install/reboot.

Tomasz