Re: Urgent! Yaboot died, how to rescue?

2004-07-10 Thread Seb Tennant
On Saturday, July 10, 2004, at 10:07 am, Sean Schertell wrote: Please help! I've gotta get some work done quickly but I seem to have killed my yaboot and can't boot. It's on a PowerBook, so no floppy. I got hit with the bug in module-init-tools 3.1-pre2-1 which causes this craziness: modp

Re: ISO or Netinst?

2004-07-08 Thread Seb Tennant
On Thursday, July 8, 2004, at 05:01 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I'd recommend anyone doing an install _now_ should try the latest debian-installer beta or nightly images, and try those. Also, C doesn't always work with non-MacOS CDs, you might have to drop to OF and run 'boot cd:

Shut out and need to restore/rewrite misconfigured bootloader!!!

2004-06-08 Thread Seb Tennant
Hi all. I added the following lines to my /etc/yaboot.conf to create a dual-boot menu. (Until now I have been holding down the 'alt' key on start-up to boot into OSX). macosx=/dev/hda9 enablecdboot enableofboot enablenetboot delay=60 I then ran ybin (ybin -b /dev/hda2) successfully but received

Re: Installing Debian using debian-sarge-netinst.iso (powerpc)

2004-02-24 Thread Seb Tennant
Hi all. As the person who started this thread it's about time I responded! First of all, though it hardly matters, my machine is a G4 desktop, not a laptop. I have overcome my partitioning problems and have seemingly successfully employed the Debian Installer twice now. The first time I did it

Re: Installing Debian using debian-sarge-netinst.iso (powerpc)

2004-02-22 Thread Seb Tennant
I kept getting the "Apple_Bootstrap" error when I was installing. It turned out that using a different version of the installation files fixed the problem. I now think I know what I was doing wrong. Using Disk Utility to create the partitions for the Debian filesystem is a mistake. I haven't