Re: [PATCH] Revert "Link yaboot at 1MB"

2017-10-26 Thread Milan Kupcevic
On 10/26/2017 08:06 AM, Richard Kuenz wrote: > Hello , > > I have one computer where the cd drive is faulty so id like to boot off > firwire drvi externally. It is a powermac g5. > https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/powerpc/ch05s01.html.en#boot-cd 0 > boot fw/node/sbp-2/disk:,\install\yab

Re: [PATCH] Revert "Link yaboot at 1MB"

2017-10-26 Thread Richard Kuenz
Hello , I have one computer where the cd drive is faulty so id like to boot off firwire drvi externally. It is a powermac g5. Does someone know how to do this? Normally i boot into open firmware and type there Boot cd:\install\yaboot Von meinem iPad gesendet Am 22.10.2017 um 07:05 schrieb M

Fwd: [PATCH] Revert "Link yaboot at 1MB"

2017-10-22 Thread Mark Balantzyan
ie to include dual-booting with Tiger OS X right away (subsequent installs sometimes dual-booted, sometimes not, on the Quad). > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "richard.kuenz" mailto:richard.ku...@web.de>> > Subject: AW: Re: [PATCH] Revert "Link yaboot at 1M

Re: [PATCH] Revert "Link yaboot at 1MB"

2017-10-21 Thread Mark Balantzyan
It may also be worthwhile to consider (force-)booting from Optical Drive on PMacs/ppc64 as selectable from the GRUB menu. The (former) Yaboot has this option. Discs of a Linux-nature may or may not be detected from OF, I have found. It’s probably quite lofty already to consider FireWire and USB

Re: [PATCH] Revert "Link yaboot at 1MB"

2017-10-21 Thread Mark Balantzyan
My bad, correction on my last reply-all: > P.S. I understand that the new GRUB is likely not going to replace > OpenFirmware, so I am requesting just to be able to still boot from USB + > Firewire on the G5 Quad and USB on the G5 Dual 2.0 from the bootloader, and > not have to manually drill in

Re: [PATCH] Revert "Link yaboot at 1MB"

2017-10-21 Thread Mark Balantzyan
Hello everyone, Long time no…erm. "We are actually working on making GRUB the default bootloader for Debian powerpc and ppc64. It is already the default bootloader when installing on PREP/CHRP PowerPC machines. There is still some work to do for Apple NewWorld machines though but I am confident

Re: [PATCH] Revert "Link yaboot at 1MB"

2017-10-21 Thread John Ogness
On 2017-10-21, Tony Breeds wrote: >> This reverts commit f7a364631f2a8975ecca56668a19ee0a66c1ddcd. >> >> An iBook G4 (PowerBook6,5) was unable to boot when linking to the >> lower address. Revert back to 2MB. >> >> Signed-off-by: John Ogness >> --- >> I could not find any references about _why

Re: [PATCH] Revert "Link yaboot at 1MB"

2017-10-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/21/2017 03:05 AM, Tony Breeds wrote: > I'd say that as most 'new' platforms have moved away from yaboot to grub > we're probably safe to apply this but I'd like to do more digging before > I commit to that. We are actually working on making GRUB the default bootloader for Debian powerpc and

Re: [PATCH] Revert "Link yaboot at 1MB"

2017-10-20 Thread Tony Breeds
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 10:49:27PM +0200, John Ogness wrote: > This reverts commit f7a364631f2a8975ecca56668a19ee0a66c1ddcd. > > An iBook G4 (PowerBook6,5) was unable to boot when linking to the > lower address. Revert back to 2MB. > > Signed-off-by: John Ogness > --- > I could not find any ref

[PATCH] Revert "Link yaboot at 1MB"

2017-10-20 Thread John Ogness
This reverts commit f7a364631f2a8975ecca56668a19ee0a66c1ddcd. An iBook G4 (PowerBook6,5) was unable to boot when linking to the lower address. Revert back to 2MB. Signed-off-by: John Ogness --- I could not find any references about _why_ yaboot was moved from 2MB to 1MB. I did not bother to se