I'm also trying to get my G4 12" working so I can offer a little help with yaboot. Have a good look at:
http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/doc/yaboot-howto.shtml/ which pretty much tells you everything you need to know. There's actually more information in the man pages and the default /etc/yaboot.conf file. Here's my current yaboot.conf if it helps, maybe someone will point out any mistakes :o) default=Debian macosx=hd:14 defaultos=macosx boot=/dev/hdc9 device=hd: partition=10 delay=10 timeout=50 install=/usr/local/lib/yaboot/yaboot magicboot=/usr/local/lib/yaboot/ofboot ofboot=hd:9 image=/vmlinux-pbg412.bin label=Debian root=/dev/hdc11 read-only Where: o hd:9 is my bootstrap partition o hd:10 is my /boot partition o hd:11 is my / partition o hd:14 is my Mac OS X partition The first 1 to 8 partitions seem to be taken up by all sorts of Apple Macintosh rubbish. You need to run mkofboot to correctly format the bootstrap partition and then ybin to install the yaboot loader etc. I got the tools by just downloading the source and building it http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/yaboot-1.3.10.tar.gz Btw if you get X working let me know how... as I don't have the time at the moment to figure it out... Jim -----Original Message----- From: Philippe Sainte-Marie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 March 2003 16:05 To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: Powerbook G4 12" and Debian As Alejandro, i'm also trying to get my Debian to work with my Powerbook. I've read all threads about the yaboot issue, but as i'm not an expert with all this kind of stuff, i don't understand how you guys manage to install yaboot 1.3.10. If anyone could do a little how-to for the yaboot install part it would be great. I could launch the install thanks to Branden's netinstall how-to and that 2.4.20-ben5 kernel from Orion Buckminster Montoya, but i tried to manage that yaboot thing without any success. Thanks in advance. -- Philippe Sainte-Marie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
