On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 11:20 +0100, Romain Goyet wrote:
> 2010/3/25 Michel Dänzer :
> > On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 11:32 +0100, Romain Goyet wrote:
> >>
> >> By the way, as of writing this, grub2 on PPC from debian gives a "out
> >> of memory" issue. Known bug.
> >
> > That's on the G5? It's working on
2010/3/25 Michel Dänzer :
> On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 11:32 +0100, Romain Goyet wrote:
>>
>> Here's a summary about "how to boot a PowerMac G5 without a screen
>> attached". As many people have noticed, default yaboot install won't
>> boot unless a screen is attached.
>>
>> Actually, the workaround
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 11:32 +0100, Romain Goyet wrote:
>
> Here's a summary about "how to boot a PowerMac G5 without a screen
> attached". As many people have noticed, default yaboot install won't
> boot unless a screen is attached.
>
> Actually, the workaround is really simple. Thing is, th
The root of the problem is that Apple OF will not open an stdout
for you
on some machines if you don't enter OF manually, so yaboot text never
shows up. This was somewhat worked around by the ofboot.b script but
indeed, it seems to fail to check that there's a display to open
before
actually
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 11:32 +0100, Romain Goyet wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>
> Here's a summary about "how to boot a PowerMac G5 without a screen
> attached". As many people have noticed, default yaboot install won't
> boot unless a screen is attached.
CC'ing Tony who is the latest victim of yaboot
Hi there,
Here's a summary about "how to boot a PowerMac G5 without a screen
attached". As many people have noticed, default yaboot install won't
boot unless a screen is attached.
Actually, the workaround is really simple. Thing is, that's the
"ofboot.b" script that messes things up. This sc
