-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 18 May 2011 17:23:26 +0000 annathemerm...@hush.com wrote: >On Thu, 05 May 2011 18:14:43 +0000 Roger Leigh ><rle...@codelibre.net> wrote: >>> Now that Debian is up and running, is there documentation >>somewhere >>> explaining how to make yaboot offer options to boot OpenBSD >>and/or >>> NetBSD? >> >>It should be possible, but AFAIK it's currently broken: >>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=372780 >> >>Looks like it's simple to fix, but there wasn't anyone who could >>test it properly. >> >>Regards, >>Roger > >I've been having a more serious issue with yaboot: it seems to >wreck the Mac Os Classic disk drivers so Mac OS 9.2.2 can't boot >anymore. Instead, it just shows this sort of flashing flopping >image. Apparently, the usual workaround is to boot into the >Classic >install CD and select the Update Drivers function from the Disk >Setup. Unfortunately, since I have a late 2003 model that barely >supports booting into Classic, the installation program is only >capable of running from withing OS X's Classic Mode; it doesn't >work when booted directly off the CD. The Tiger and Panther >installation disks only seem to be capable of installing the >drivers when partitioning the disk from scratch; they don't know >how to fix the drivers without wiping the disk. So, no Update >Drivers for me. The problem does not occur if Debian is installed >without the yaboot Apple_Bootstrap partition, but then, of course, >there's no way to boot Debian. Creating the Apple_Bootstrap >partition with OpenBSD's pdisk rather than Debian's mac-fdisk >doesn't help either, so I think the problem must occur when yaboot >actually installs itself onto the Apple_Bootstrap partition. >Wiping >the disk and installing Mac OS X / Mac OS 9.2.2 from scratch will >resolve the issue, but then of course it will break again when I >install Debian again.
I notice that the bug report is rather recent, being filed against squeeze. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=604134 I wonder if it would work properly if wiped the disk, and tried again, but this time used squeeze with lenny's yaboot. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Charset: UTF8 Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com/verify Version: Hush 3.0 wsBcBAEBAgAGBQJN1WstAAoJEKlMTST7VF+o/VsIAKVKSgAkkkpP35ah5Y9cZCFL2Qrp 2lGLzR+uLnmWAIlQiEChBoGxutvY82CDuNpbYUIS6qqMlGfDxN2H/9V8A/UrE/su3iw5 pZjCPXloRxMwwwyq9oeYr2QDdAzAJn+XdiAW0n+NCpsz6V0IN6yrrfhmtC0ogtRHOQQ4 CywOUcX6Ct3ewxshROKomH2WU3+4XbIIAhEdGnF5w6rDpUqt6NiQt4wiN8R8WjUXHVQX qDlaKoSZCx2nni/LkwF+NFpsr1XgKwsls3QuFxb0ycLzc+16JT4kW8ffgsv3D9IwJWyf lYwmWJzxyLVZaQxQqv6tERoluZrJyvqSOAVodvc3JIs= =Zurw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110519191037.467dfe6...@smtp.hushmail.com
