On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 09:06:08AM +0100, Brian Durant wrote : > OK, now I have gotten Ubuntu installed and running on my Power Mac > G5. However, I have run into a problem with Yaboot and OS X. Yaboot > simply can't load OS X. it tries, and the screen flickers, but > nothing happens. After three tries, it says something like "booting > Mac OS X..." and nothing works, so I have to do a hard shutdown and > then unplug my #1 drive, which is where Ubuntu PPC is installed.. > > Any ideas will be appreciated.
Well, the debian-installer works, provided that you upgrade yaboot to the one from the unstable distribution. So if you do not have important data on your ubuntu, you could install a debian sarge instead. This is what I have at home and booting osX was not a problem. I have documented how I installed sarge on my mac on the following installation report. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=340980 Also, if you are lucky, you might find a working yaboot.conf in the debian bugs or the list archives. Lastly, here is the debian installation manual, which might contain useful stuff related to your problem. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/index (By the way, I have no macintosh background, but I wonder wether pressing the option after reset would start another boot selector which is not yaboot...) Best, and good luck ! -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
