Hello, First of all, I noticed that '=' is often replaced by 't' on this list, when viewed from the html archive. For example, I had a hard time figuring out that 'videotofonly' was in fact 'video=ofonly'... A few P appear as well on the end of the lines. Is it a side effect of using Linux on a powerpc, of some kind of different ASCII encoding between Mac and PC ?
Well, anyway, I managed to connect to the Open Firmware : alt+apple+O+F keys down while booting Then I booted on the install system from cd : of > boot cd:\\yaboot then on yaboot prompt : debian video=ofonly (otherwise the screen hangs a few seconds later, I guess it can't managed the video card in the machine). I went thru the installation process (first partition the hard drive, with a Apple_Bootstrap partition first), and before 'Make system bootable', I opened a terminal (apple+right arrow) and installed yaboot (anyway I thought I was installing yaboot) : mkofboot -b /dev/hda9 -m /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot --root /dev/hda11 I reboot and get : Welcome to yaboot version 0.9 Config file read, 150 bytes boot : <NUL> Loading kernel... Image not found.... try again WARNING ! default_close called ! boot : That's it :-( What I don't get is where the kernel is at the first reboot, while the system is not installed yet. There is a /target/vmlinux symlink, but if I try hd:11/target/vmlinux at the yaboot boot: prompt, it doesn't find it... Thanks for any help. Franck
