On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 22:17 +0100, Moritz Armingeon wrote: > On 14:48 Tue 01 Feb , Pedro Sanchez wrote: > > I found in > > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.powerpc/ch07s01.html#id2537092 > > that I can press the "options" key to get a graphical boot menu. I do > > get it, and I see two icons, one for OS X and another for Linux. I click > > on the second one (or use the tab key), and then click a right arrow > > which I interpret as "continue." > Hey, now that is a cool feature! Thanks for pointing this out! Unfortunately, > that doesn't get you any further... > > > However, instead of booting Linux I get a text menu that says something > > like > > > > Press I for GNU/Linux > > x for OSX > > c for CDROM > > > > Stage 1 boot: > > > > But the keyboard seems dead at this point. I tried "I", "i", "1", and > > neither works. This text menu only lasts a few seconds and then it puts > > me back into the graphical boot menu :| > It would be "l" (Small "L"). > Small "l" puts me back into the graphical boot menu :( Small "x" boots OS X OK!
By having this text menu I assume I am in fact running the yaboot that the d-i put in the hard drive. My guess is that the d-i didn't do a good job and yaboot is not configured properly to boot Debian. Just to recap, OS X lives in the first hard drive (SATA) sdb1. Debian was installed in the second hard drive (SATA) sdb2, with yaboot in the second partition. I think I will read about this openfirmware thing to figure out how to tell it to boot sdb2:2 directly (would this make sense?). > > Just to test, if a select the first icon, OS X, and then click the right > > arrow, I get a blank screen ... nothing else. I doesn't boot OS X. > That works for me... > > I would try the Gentoo install CD[1]. Boot from it, chroot into your setup and > start experimenting with the bootstrap partition with mkofboot und ybin. This > is pretty good documented in the Gentoo Handbook[2] > > Or, what is probably smarter, wait for someone with a more concrete idea of > what is going wrong... > Thanks, it's certainly an option. But I want to believe that this Debian list can get me out of this hole. I'll give a try first. > Moritz > > > [1] > ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/releases/ppc64/2004.3/livecd/install-ppc64-g5-minimal-2004.3.iso > > [2] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc64.xml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
