I was sent a new hard drive with several linux distros pre installed. I need some help getting it to boot. I've removed my MorphOS formated master drive and replaced it with the new one set as master. When I power on my Pegasos II it gets to the OF prompt. If I type "ls /pci/ide/disk@0,0 I can see the partitions just fine. The are Boot, debian, ubuntu and gentoo. If I type ls /pci/ide/disk@0,0 boot I see this:

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Menu

I assume the menu is what I need to start to get it going? How?

boot hd:0 menu

Thanks!! Its working great. Its nice to have a working linux at last. Th eonly problem I have is BBRV didnt send me an info on th root passwords for the installs and I have no usernames to log in with. Are there defaults on them?

Hi, as mentioned in the email it is root/genesi. In Ubuntu you can declare your own.

We hope it is working great. Thanks for helping us out with the presentations.

R&B

My system is set to boot MOS auto. If I take the MOS drive out and put in my linux drive I can boot as mentioned above. If I put it in as mater on the 2nd IDE header I can get it to load the menu by typing boot /pci/ide/disk@1,0:0 menu but when I select a linux to boot it fails. Does this drive have to be on the master on IDE 1? If so can I move my MOS drive to slave on that header and still get it to auto boot?

The Linux disk, because of the hardcoded paths to hd:0 and /dev/hda*, needs to be the Primary Master.

Since MorphOS works by volume names of RDB partitions it doesn't matter where that disk goes. It can be on the moon for all it cares; so just put that as Primary Slave.

Hope that's clear.

Got it all up and working at last. I am now posting this from Ubuntu! Thanks for the help. Now I just need to learn linux as well as I know MOS and OSX.