2010/3/25 Michel Dänzer <mic...@daenzer.net>: > On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 11:32 +0100, Romain Goyet wrote: >> >> Here's a summary about "how to boot a PowerMac G5 without a screen >> attached". As many people have noticed, default yaboot install won't >> boot unless a screen is attached. >> >> Actually, the workaround is really simple. Thing is, that's the >> "ofboot.b" script that messes things up. This script is a "bridge", >> that actually either starts yaboot or let you boot off of a CD. I >> don't know what's the point, since OpenFirmware already lets you boot >> off of the CD by pressing C on boot… >> >> So basically, to boot headless, all you have to do is to tell >> OpenFirmware to boot straight off the yaboot binary, and to skip the >> ofboot.b >> Just boot into OpenFirmware (Command-Option-O-F), and type : >> setenv boot-device hd:2,yaboot (where 2 is the number of the partition >> containing yaboot) >> boot >> >> And here you go, you can unplug that useless monitor :-) >> >> References : >> http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/blog/archive/2005/02/THE_WINE_OF_BOOT.html >> http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnPowerPC > > That's good to know, thanks. >
You're welcome. Actually I also wrote this as a memo for myself :-) > >> By the way, as of writing this, grub2 on PPC from debian gives a "out >> of memory" issue. Known bug. > > That's on the G5? It's working on my PowerBook, but I haven't updated > the grub2 binaries on the bootstrap partition in a while... > > Yeah, that's on a PowerMac QuadG5. I think that's a known issue : http://www.mail-archive.com/grub-de...@gnu.org/msg04455.html However it might be another one since it's working for you. I'm using grub2 from Debian stable. > -- > Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com > Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
