Hi,
On 12/28/20 9:51 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
You should try to install one of the Yaboot images to make sure there is no
problem
with your machine.
That could be a check to perform... where is the last working yaboot image to
be found?
See:https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/10.0/
If I install one of those images, yaboot gets installed and gets loaded
at reboot, although boot finally fails with "unknown or corrupt
filesystem" when loading the kernel. I used standard partitioning.
Maybe I am bitten by the fact that the installer partitioned ext4 root,
but yaboot doesn't know about it. I will retry with a separate /boot
I did a very minimal install, only system utilities, since there are no
"sid" repositories and the installer will try to find sid even if a port
mirror is given as URL.
Still, I think it is "proof enough", yaboot gets loaded - the same thing
should happen to GRUB.
Also, this allowed me another important test: if "alt" is hit at boot,
one hard disk is shown with a Penguin - this means that OpenFirmware
sees the partition as bootable.
Does your iBook G4 run GRUB and does the same? I cannot access mine
right now due to lockdown restrictions.
Riccardo
