On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 12:18:34AM -0700, Wesley Smith wrote:
> I'm using a G5. I can get to the yaboot menu, but no further. To get
> further, I have to edit yaboot.conf. Is there a way to access it from
> the menu? Otherwise, are there any other techniques besides using a
> live Ubuntu disc?
Mike writes:
If there is a question as to whether the ubuntu livecd will work on
the G5, being in posession of one I know that there are power3 and
power4 kernels, which I think I read that the G5 uses the power4
kernel, but I am remembering something from an old post now, can't
the yaboot
According to james houston, on Tue, 31 May 2005 21:00:56
-0700 (PDT),
>I have OS X (10.4.1) and Sarge on my iBook (dual USB).
>
>I tried to customize my yaboot.conf file and messed up
>the syntax so now when I choose "l" in yaboot, I get
>this error:
>
>Config file error: newline is not allowed in
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 18:19 +, Mike S wrote:
>
> >
> >
> In these new powerbooks are you not able to open OpenFirmware at boot
> anymore I do not know how to edit the yaboot.conf file, from OS X,
> but
> I know that I have always been able to use a simple boot argument
> from
> yaboot,
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:00:56PM -0700, james houston wrote:
> I have OS X (10.4.1) and Sarge on my iBook (dual USB).
>
> I tried to customize my yaboot.conf file and messed up
> the syntax so now when I choose "l" in yaboot, I get
> this error:
>
> Config file error: newline is not allowed in
Wesley Smith wrote:
I'm curious as to how it was done by someone else on this list back in
February. By what they wrote in the thread, they seemed to be able to
access the yaboot.conf from a shell obtained from the installer after
mounting the drive. I need to do the same thing on my system si
Jeff Green wrote:
Martin writes:
The hard driver partition gets mounted at a later time in the
install process. You could step through more steps of the install
process if you don't know where your root partition is, or mount
it manually from your shell using:
mount /dev/hda3 /target
When
On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 10:20:12 +0200, Wesley Smith wrote:
> Do you remember how you mounted the drive partitions?
I dropped to a shell and issued the "mount" command with the usual syntax.
But there was no "/dev/hdXX", it looked like more "BSDish" as
"/dev/disc0/lun0/blahblah".
After that, I chroo
Martin writes:
The hard driver partition gets mounted at a later time in the
install process. You could step through more steps of the install
process if you don't know where your root partition is, or mount
it manually from your shell using:
mount /dev/hda3 /target
When I did an escape to th
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:00:56PM -0700, james houston wrote:
> I have OS X (10.4.1) and Sarge on my iBook (dual USB).
>
> I tried to customize my yaboot.conf file and messed up
> the syntax so now when I choose "l" in yaboot, I get
> this error:
>
> Config file error: newline is not allowed in
Do you remember how you mounted the drive partitions?
wes
On 5/31/05, Jack Malmostoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 08:30:12 +0200, Wesley Smith wrote:
>
> > By what they wrote in the thread, they seemed to be able to
> > access the yaboot.conf from a shell obtained from the i
On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 08:30:12 +0200, Wesley Smith wrote:
> By what they wrote in the thread, they seemed to be able to
> access the yaboot.conf from a shell obtained from the installer after
> mounting the drive.
Actually I did it using the d-i. Ubuntu didn't have a PPC livecd at the
time!
But I
I'm using a G5. I can get to the yaboot menu, but no further. To get
further, I have to edit yaboot.conf. Is there a way to access it from
the menu? Otherwise, are there any other techniques besides using a
live Ubuntu disc?
thanks,
wes
On 5/31/05, Mike S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wesley S
I'm curious as to how it was done by someone else on this list back in
February. By what they wrote in the thread, they seemed to be able to
access the yaboot.conf from a shell obtained from the installer after
mounting the drive. I need to do the same thing on my system since I
installed debian
On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 06:10:07 +0200, james houston wrote:
> What is the best direction to go then?
This kind of sucks, since it's not enough to edit yaboot.conf but you also
have to issue "ybin" on the CLI (that's why I hope Grub2 comes as soon as
possible).
Try booting with a livecd (Ubuntu's wi
I have OS X (10.4.1) and Sarge on my iBook (dual USB).
I tried to customize my yaboot.conf file and messed up
the syntax so now when I choose "l" in yaboot, I get
this error:
Config file error: newline is not allowed in quoted
strings near line 7 in file \\yaboot.conf
Syntax error or read error c
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