Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Hey, you're the expert :-) I'll take your word over mine any day (I've > used powerpc linux exactly 6 weeks). > > I was under the impression that if the boot strap partition went after > the Mac OS X partition then Mac OS X "de-blessed" all but itself. Am I > wrong there? Nope, the only differ

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Benjamin" == Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Benjamin> On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 17:00 -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: >> >> The bootstrap partition *must* go before the Mac OS X partition >> if you want yaboot to work "out of the box." This often Benjamin>

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 17:00 -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Pedro" == Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Pedro> Just to recap, OS X lives in the first hard drive (SATA) > Pedro> sdb1. Debian was installed in the second hard drive (SATA) > Pedro> sdb2, with yaboot in the

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Pedro" == Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pedro> My suggestion for the installer would be the following: Pedro> Close to the end of the process the installer asked me Pedro> where to install yaboot. But the only option I got was Pedro> /dev/sdb2. It's because it wa

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-02 Thread Pedro Sanchez
I decided to go the "hard" way, swapping "hard" drives (that's a good pun!). At this moment the system is loading a bunch of packages to set up my workstation. That is, I was able to reboot the machine and get into Linux, Hurray! I have yet to test if OSX is now screwed up :| Before swapping disks

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-02 Thread Pedro Sanchez
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 12:49 -0700, Mauro wrote: > Just boot holding option key down and select linux partition to boot > from with mouse. > Mauro > > That's what I said that doesn't work. It puts me back into the graphical boot menu. > On Tue, 2005-01-02 at 14:48 -0500, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > >

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Pedro" == Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pedro> Almost right. "tell it to boot off the second disk..." I Pedro> imagine that's what I do when I click the Linux icon in the Pedro> graphical boot menu, correct? I assume the little text boot Pedro> menu that follows i

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-02 Thread Mauro
Just boot holding option key down and select linux partition to boot from with mouse. Mauro On Tue, 2005-01-02 at 14:48 -0500, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 20:20 +0100, Moritz Armingeon wrote: > > Hello Pedro! > > > > On 13:58 Tue 01 Feb , Pedro Sanchez wrote: > > > Unfortuna

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-02 Thread Pedro Sanchez
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 17:00 -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Pedro" == Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Pedro> Just to recap, OS X lives in the first hard drive (SATA) > Pedro> sdb1. Debian was installed in the second hard drive (SATA) > Pedro> sdb2, with yaboot in the

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-02 Thread Pedro Sanchez
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 16:52 -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Pedro" == Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Pedro> I installed Debian in a second hard drive. Did I miss > Pedro> something during the install? > > Well, sounds like you got past the first problem which was that y

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-01 Thread Moritz Armingeon
Good morning Guillaume On 22:52 Tue 01 Feb , Guillaume Florey wrote: > Which key is the "option" key ? That's good old ALT. Depends on your Keyboard Layout, but mine is between the Control and the Apple-Key. Moritz pgpK10BGOMPlg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-01 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Pedro" == Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pedro> Just to recap, OS X lives in the first hard drive (SATA) Pedro> sdb1. Debian was installed in the second hard drive (SATA) Pedro> sdb2, with yaboot in the second partition. I think I will Pedro> read about this openfir

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-01 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Pedro" == Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pedro> I installed Debian in a second hard drive. Did I miss Pedro> something during the install? Well, sounds like you got past the first problem which was that you were using the RC2 installer (which does not boot). I would guess

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-01 Thread Guillaume Florey
Hi, Le Mardi, 1 Février 2005 20.48, Pedro Sanchez a écrit : > On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 20:20 +0100, Moritz Armingeon wrote: > > Hello Pedro! > > > > On 13:58 Tue 01 Feb , Pedro Sanchez wrote: > > > Unfortunately, upon reboot the system goes right into OS X. I'm new to > > > yaboot, how do I get a

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-01 Thread Pedro Sanchez
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 22:17 +0100, Moritz Armingeon wrote: > On 14:48 Tue 01 Feb , Pedro Sanchez wrote: > > I found in > > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.powerpc/ch07s01.html#id2537092 > > that I can press the "options" key to get a graphical boot menu. I do > > get it, and I see two ic

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-01 Thread Moritz Armingeon
On 14:48 Tue 01 Feb , Pedro Sanchez wrote: > I found in > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.powerpc/ch07s01.html#id2537092 > that I can press the "options" key to get a graphical boot menu. I do > get it, and I see two icons, one for OS X and another for Linux. I click > on the second one

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-01 Thread Pedro Sanchez
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 20:20 +0100, Moritz Armingeon wrote: > Hello Pedro! > > On 13:58 Tue 01 Feb , Pedro Sanchez wrote: > > Unfortunately, upon reboot the system goes right into OS X. I'm new to > > yaboot, how do I get a boot menu? > If yaboot is installed correct, try resetting the PRAM. H

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-01 Thread Moritz Armingeon
Hello Pedro! On 13:58 Tue 01 Feb , Pedro Sanchez wrote: > Unfortunately, upon reboot the system goes right into OS X. I'm new to > yaboot, how do I get a boot menu? If yaboot is installed correct, try resetting the PRAM. Hold ALT+Apple-Key+P+R at boottime. I wasted hours until I figured that

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-01 Thread Pedro Sanchez
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 17:41 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > This is a jigdo file to create a full CD set. AFAIK this is still rc2 of > debian-installer. The fixed kernel is not contained in rc2. Try one of > the images at > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/powerpc/current/ >

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:43:55AM -0500, Pedro Sanchez wrote: >On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 02:00 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 04:44:31PM -0500, Pedro Sanchez wrote: >> >Hello, >> > >> >I got a new PowerMac G5 and I'm trying to install Debian on a

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-01 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Title: Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5 On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 02:00 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 04:44:31PM -0500, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > >    Hello, > > > >    I got a new PowerMac G5 and I'm trying to install Debian on a second >

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-01 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Title: Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5 On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 17:46 -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Pedro" == Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Pedro> During the installation I'm experiencing the symptoms > Pedro> desc

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-01-31 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Pedro" == Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pedro> During the installation I'm experiencing the symptoms Pedro> described in Bug #287030 Pedro> (http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/12/msg01085.html). I'm Pedro> using a d-i image from Jan 15/2005. Did you choose i

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-01-31 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 04:44:31PM -0500, Pedro Sanchez wrote: >Hello, > >I got a new PowerMac G5 and I'm trying to install Debian on a second >hard drive (SATA) that I put in the machine. I'd like to have it dual >boot OS-X/Debian. > >During the installation I'm experiencing

d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-01-31 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Title: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5 Hello, I got a new PowerMac G5 and I'm trying to install Debian on a second hard drive (SATA) that I put in the machine. I'd like to have it dual boot OS-X/Debian. During the installation I'm experiencing the symptoms described in Bu