I blogged about this a couple of years back. (Fedora, rather than Debian.) You may have discovered this all the hard way by now, but I'll post the link anyway:
http://reiisi.blogspot.com/2009/05/fedora-on-old-clamshell-ibook.html I think the only thing the blog really adds is that you can probably get around the Mac OS 9 partition being walked on by something like the following: After your fresh install of Mac OS 9, make sure it's updated as far as you want the Mac OS 9 system updated, and make sure there's a copy of the Apple Hard Disk utility on the Mac OS 9 partition. iBooks with Firewire can boot from an external drive. After a certain model number (check Apple's hardware pages) hey can boot from USB as well as Firewire. So you can make a copy of your booting Mac OS 9 partition (with Apple's disk imaging utility, or, even by drag-and-drop copying, usually) and boot from an external drive in some cases. If that doesn't work for you, you should still be able to copy the partition and burn a CD-R (but not CD-RW) from the copy, and end up with a bootable CD from which to run Apple's HD Utilitiy. (Ergo, to get you out of the bind when Debian's installer walks on the Mac OS 9 partiions.) (I did file a bug on this in Fedora's Bugzilla, but they couldn't get the hardware and the spare personnel with the technical expertise all together long enough to fix it, I think. Wish I had the time to look at it myself.) On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 4:10 AM, <annathemerm...@hush.com> wrote: > -----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/BANLkTikBhBf_RTZYHk3=s0awe00hcv5...@mail.gmail.com
