Re: open firmware
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 05:50:17PM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I was wondering if anyone knew of a good tutorial on open firmware. I'm
> trying to install Debian on a new Mac G4 and I don't think I'm even
> telling the open firmware to start yaboot the right way. What I think
> should work is:
> > boot cd:,\\yaboot
>
> this complains about size being 0. Next I tried:
> > boot :cd:,\\yaboot
>
> this looks like it's doing something but I can't tell what because it
> flashes some text on the screen and then gives a broken monitor icon and
> hangs.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The yaboot-HOWTO at penguinppc.org would be helpful.
I think you want to leave off the \\ :
boot cd:,yaboot
But that's if yaboot is on the root level of the cd, which it's probably
not. Recent cd's I believe would need
boot cd:,/install/powermac/yaboot
or so.
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