On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 02:40:27PM -0600, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: > Initially, the machine would boot from the cd (by holding down 'c' at > boot) but would quickly go to a black screen. I discovered that by > entering Open Firmware and typing > > boot cd:\\yaboot fixed for woody. > I was able to get to a boot prompt, at which I ran > > install video=ofonly woody has a install-novideo option if you really need it. > appropriate partition. The installer *really* ought to do that for you, > and it would be nice to see the warning about needing an 800k boot > partition of the right type before being dropped to pdisk; I'm glad I > read the online instructions first, because just the installer screens > would have baffled me. woody boot-floppies do all of this. and mac-fdisk has command -- b -- for properly creating the bootstrap partition. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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