Have you tried lilo?  this modifies the boot sector to allow Linux to boot
straight off of the hard drive.
try "man lilo" and it should tell you how.
Examine /etc/lilo.conf.
the command "lilo" modifies the boot sector according to lilo.conf
It also depends on the distro you are using.  Each one has a different way of
configuring lilo parameters for you.

On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Boot Help
> I have a PPC (PreP) system, that I can't get to boot from the hard drive. I
> have root on sda1, swap on sda3,and PreP on sda2. When I boot from the
> floppy, after it gets started, I give the boot argument "root=/dev/sda1",
> and it boots right up. The question I have, and it's probably pretty dumb,
> but here it goes anyway. To get it to boot directly from the hard drive do I
> have the open firmware look to the PreP partition or the "/" partition to
> boot?
> Bill
> 
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