Re: Problems booting debian after upgrade to jessie and running ybin

[Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>]

On 03.12.2014 06:00, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 21:13:31 +0100
> Michael Schaffner <lists@nopanik.org> wrote:
> > I don't have any clue what's going on and what further steps I could
> > take. After all, this device has booted all 3 OSes successfully for
> > ages.
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> I cannot help you with yaboot, as I have stopped using it for years, my
> powerbook G4 runs grub2 since a couple of years without any problems,
> my suggestion would be to just ditch yaboot and its problems and try
> grub2 on your macmini G4 (I think it should run). You could easily
> setup your other OSes there, just like on an x86.

Beware that AFAIK grub2 *cannot* boot Mac OS (or MorphOS, presumably) on 
PowerMacs. One can still boot into Mac OS using the OF boot menu, which 
one can get into by holding the alt/option key while OF initializes.


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