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Re: trying to boot an Imac into debian....no success



On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 03:24:55PM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote:
> 
> > Having difficulty getting it to work. I.e the yaboot step 
> > with ofboot does not succeed when the computer is told to
> > reboot from the install. I ran the command:
> 
> mkofboot --boot /dev/hda5 -m /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot --root /dev/hda7 --partition 7

only if you run potato.  for woody just run make system bootable.  if
that doesn't work i want to know why.

> and respond yes when it asks to create a hfs filesystem. The default is
> No? I assume that when they mean device node of the the bootstrap partition
> they mean /boot ?

no. rtfm.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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