Re: downgrading harddrive from 9.0

On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 03:05:00PM +0200, Even André wrote:

Hi, I've bought me one of those PowerBook Pismo G3's 400...
When I try to boot into linux I get a "hda: lost interrupt" signal,
 the same as I had on my PowerMac G3 B/W...
This is a problem with the Mac OS 9 hd driver, right?

The problem is that I can't get the PowerBook to boot from my Mac OS 8.5 CD
to downgrade my hd drivers to the 8.5 drivers.
I've now updated my hd drivers with the fwb HDToolkit 4.0 app, this doesn't
seem to work either.
Shouldn't this work?

The bottom line is, can anyone tell me how to downgrade my hd drivers (if
this is what causing the problem), since the Drive Setup from OS 8.5 can't
be loaded
on my PowerBook w/ OS 9.04 ??

you don't. 

the proper solution is "Don't use BootX, use yaboot"

you need to use yaboot, deal with it.

you can find a yaboot-faq on my web page (see my .sig)
(~/erbenson/doc/yaboot-faq.html) and a GNU/Linux based yaboot
installation utility. ybin (which also includes yaboot docs).

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/