Hi Riccardo, On 6/25/19 3:50 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> It can be done from any running system, it doesn't really matter whether >> it's been booted off a CD-ROM or from any other medium. >> >> But I will be looking into this issue soonish. Please bear with me. > > in the meanwhile I did not stand still, but I tried: > > 1) boot with rescue CD as Frank suggested > 2) mount root > 3) get and install yaboot > 3) nvsetenv boot-device "$( ofpath /dev/<HFS_BOOTSTRAP_PARTITION> ),\grub" > > but reboot... still shows me the blinking folder and using "option" does > not show the hard disk.
I think I had this same problem installing Debian 9 on a G5 system. The workaround was to boot the rescue CD, open a shell and chroot into the new installation, then run "ybin -v". I think I also entered "set-defaults" first at the firmware prompt, but that may not have been required. > > So I wonder what could be "Missing" if only the boot loader installation > failed during install > perhaps grub itself. > > Perhaps I can in the rescue shell try to reinstall and reconfigure grub? > how? > > Riccardo > > PS: I noticed that the CD still has the wrong mirrors source list, as a > long time ago. What should be the correct one to use currently and can > itbe fixed too? > -Stan
