On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 11:13:00PM -0500, Russell Hires wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hmmm...exact symptoms. Well, we have OS 8.6, which I had prepartitioned and > installed potato on, but I was using BootX to do the booting. It's a Rev A or > B iMac, I'll have to look when I get back to the lab on Monday. I had created > a 50 MB HFS partition, since I understand that HFS+ is bad for Linux and > yaboot/ybin...I booted into OF to do the boot hd:8,yaboot thing, and there I > am in the Debian Installer for woody. I installed, and then when I entered > the macos=/dev/hda9 into yaboot.conf, I tried to reboot into MacOS. > > It would boot into something, since I got the grey screen, and the cursor in > the top left corner which wouldn't move, and then nothing else. I tried to > boot off the 8.6 CD and it did the same thing. I tried to reset the PRAM, and > that did nothing, either. I could boot into Linux just fine.
I wonder if it's possible a driver partition might have actually gotten deleted or written over during the install? Well anyway this is what I was after, a grey screen with the non-movable cursor in the corner (assume a black arrow), not even a floppy picture. To install the 9.1 update driver, you booted from the 9.1 CD? So the 9.1 was bootable but the 8.6 was not. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
