On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 05:50:17PM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I was wondering if anyone knew of a good tutorial on open firmware. I'm > trying to install Debian on a new Mac G4 and I don't think I'm even > telling the open firmware to start yaboot the right way. What I think > should work is: > > boot cd:,\\yaboot > > this complains about size being 0. Next I tried: > > boot :cd:,\\yaboot > > this looks like it's doing something but I can't tell what because it > flashes some text on the screen and then gives a broken monitor icon and > hangs. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The yaboot-HOWTO at penguinppc.org would be helpful. I think you want to leave off the \\ : boot cd:,yaboot But that's if yaboot is on the root level of the cd, which it's probably not. Recent cd's I believe would need boot cd:,/install/powermac/yaboot or so. -- *------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 | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
