> I just got my Ti PowerBook, and I'm trying to install Debian on it, > having no use for the proprietary software that came with it. I've > made a CD of the non-us 2.2r2 image using the pseudo-image kit and > cdrecord.
I was just doing this last night > So, I get into OpenFirmware, and then I try using "boot cd:", but that > fails with: boot cd:\\yaboot The screen will clear and you'll see a Boot: prompt. fairly quickly, you must type linux video=ofonly at the prompt. If you wait more than a few seconds, it will start the default boot, and video wont work. You'll see a few messages after the boot prompt once you hit return, then the screen will clear white and you'll see a message at the top about the video chip for a few seconds, then the screen will clear black and linux will be booting. This will get you into the installer. During partitioning, blow away your placeholder partition, then create your Apple_Bootstrap partition (first, size 800K), swap, root and whatever other partitions you want. On my system, after writing out the partition table, the installer consistently segfaulted, but the partition table did get written, and I just had to reboot into OF and restart the installer as above. At the end of the install, before rebooting, I switched to the console (Cmd-Fn-F2). Your newly initialized root partition will be mounted on target. You can go to /target/etc and edit the yaboot.conf you find there, then run mkofboot -b /dev/hdaXX -C /target/etc/yaboot.conf to install the booter. XX is the partition number of your Apple_Bootstrap partition you created. In my case, it comes out as /dev/hda9, 1-8 are driver partitions and such. -raf
