On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:51:51AM -0600, Jonathan Wight wrote: > On 2/22/01 10:45 AM, "Martin Svensson" <martin.svensson@masystem.se> wrote: > > > Thanks, i will try that as soon as possible. But How do i start linux after > > the installation? Must i install yaboot in my system folder? > > > > Best regards > > Martin > > Read the install guide at http://www.debian.com/ports/powerpc and do a > search for yaboot (I downloaded the PDF - much more convenient). Basically > you need to make a 800KB partition for yaboot (before your MacOS partitions) > and once you have your linux partitions sorted out you install yaboot into > there. It's all in the user guide. > > My question is - how do I get yaboot to automatically boot to debian without > me having to keep the option key down?... you must be using an anchient version of the yaboot package. please upgrade to the one in potato r2 (0.9-0.30-2) and change the install and magicboot lines in /etc/yaboot.conf to: install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot then rerun ybin. if you want to be able to boot macos (if you have macos) add: macos=/dev/hda20 or whatever your macos partition is and rerun ybin. also make sure you upgrade powerpc-utils to at least 1.1.3-2 -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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