[Basilisk-user] Won't boot.

[Russell S. <rj...@ip...>]

Hi,
I've installed BasiliskII 1.0 from a debian package, as well as compiling
from cvs. I'm using a quadra 900 ROM that was verified to work with Basilisk
on a friends win2k box, and i've tried numerous mac boot disks from the net.
These have names like System 7.5.5.dsk, Basilisk_Linux_disk.dsk, and
System70_boot.zip etc. I've tried using dd or xhfs to raw-write them (.zip
was decompressed first) to an hfs debian floppy drive (i've got hfs enabled
in the kernel 2.4.20), as well as booting from them on the HDD. I always get
errors like:

Basilisk II V1.0 by Christian Bauer et al.
Reading ROM file...
Using /dev/dsp audio output

(speakers make slight humming noise)

Caught SIGSEGV at address 0x14110380 [IP=0x80d5e0d]
D0: 00000000 D1: fffcffff D2: fffffffc D3: 0400000f
D4: 0003fffc D5: 00000000 D6: 00000012 D7: 00000000
A0: 0000003c A1: 00000002 A2: 00006d40 A3: 0000714c
A4: 00006934 A5: 04110380 A6: 00000000 A7: 020009a6
USP=00000000 ISP=020009a6 MSP=00000000 VBR=00000000
T=00 S=1 M=0 X=1 N=1 Z=0 V=0 C=0 IMASK=0
FP0: nan FP1: nan FP2: nan FP3: nan
FP4: nan FP5: nan FP6: nan FP7: nan
N=0 Z=0 I=0 NAN=0
0402e8e8: 2815 28c4 c081 c284 8287 MOVE.L (A5),D4
next PC: 0402e8ea


The floppy drive light flashes momentarily when Basilisk boots.
System is P-III 500MHZ with 256MB ram.

What makes a mac floppy bootable? Is it the presence of a certain
file? Does it need to be in a certain physical location?

What linux tools should i use to copy a floppy image to the disk?
What extension should the floppy file have (.dsk/.hqx/ etc?)
What downloadable floppies are there that are known to work in linux?
(All the tutes are for windows tools).

I tried tracing thru basilisk with GDB, but basilisk exits before
getting very far. What's the best way for debugging? (i'm interested
in how it works)

I assume i only need a rom file and a boot floppy to atleast see some
action from basilisk?