Re: Yaboot won't boot OS X with Ubuntu/OS X dual boot Power Mac G5.

2006-01-25 Thread Brian Durant
On 24. jan 2006, at 14.31, Charles Plessy wrote: What is the result of /sbin/cfdisk -P t /dev/sda ? /sbin/cfdisk -P t /dev/sdb ? Maybe this will help? $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda Password: /dev/sda #type name length base ( size ) system /dev

Re: Yaboot won't boot OS X with Ubuntu/OS X dual boot Power Mac G5.

2006-01-25 Thread Brian Durant
On 24. jan 2006, at 14.31, Charles Plessy wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:47:35PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote : Hi Charles, Yes, I see your point. The thing is that still being newbieish to both Linux and OS X, I don't fully understand this. Here is what I know: Hi, I am also very uncomfo

Re: Yaboot won't boot OS X with Ubuntu/OS X dual boot Power Mac G5.

2006-01-24 Thread Brian Durant
On 24. jan 2006, at 14.31, Charles Plessy wrote:On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:47:35PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote : Hi Charles,Yes, I see your point. The thing is that still being newbieish to  both Linux and OS X, I don't fully understand this. Here is what I know: Hi,I am also very uncomfortable with

Re: Yaboot won't boot OS X with Ubuntu/OS X dual boot Power Mac G5.

2006-01-24 Thread Noah Slater
If you swap the physical location of your hard drives around so that your primary drive is sitting in the secondary drive bay - do you still experience problems? When I was trying to install, Yaboot refused to boot into Debian unless it's partition was located on the primary disk. HTH, Noah On 1

Re: Yaboot won't boot OS X with Ubuntu/OS X dual boot Power Mac G5.

2006-01-24 Thread Brian Durant
On 24. jan 2006, at 11.53, Charles Plessy wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:24:18AM +0100, Brian Durant wrote : boot=/dev/sda2 root=/dev/sda3 macosx=/dev/sdb3 Did you check this one ? It seems that the person who started the thread had a problem similar to yours (although symmetric). ht

Re: Yaboot won't boot OS X with Ubuntu/OS X dual boot Power Mac G5.

2006-01-24 Thread Brian Durant
On 24. jan 2006, at 9.41, Charles Plessy wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 09:06:08AM +0100, Brian Durant wrote : OK, now I have gotten Ubuntu installed and running on my Power Mac G5. However, I have run into a problem with Yaboot and OS X. Yaboot simply can't load OS X. it tries, and the screen

Re: Yaboot won't boot OS X with Ubuntu/OS X dual boot Power Mac G5.

2006-01-24 Thread Charles Plessy
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 09:06:08AM +0100, Brian Durant wrote : > OK, now I have gotten Ubuntu installed and running on my Power Mac > G5. However, I have run into a problem with Yaboot and OS X. Yaboot > simply can't load OS X. it tries, and the screen flickers, but > nothing happens. After t