Boot failure since upgrade
Hi !
I've upgraded my sid install on Powermac G5 yesterday (the last time
was weeks ago). I wasn't smart enough to survey all the upgrade, which
seemed to have run fine. But now, my systems fails to boot into linux.
At startup, I've got a little Finder-with-question-mark icon (no
bootable device found), and then the system finds my OSX partition and
boots into osX. Grub has disappeared at startup.
I've looked into openfirmware to see if I could boot by hand with no
success. The grub partition is is on /dev/sda2 for me
So I've tried "boot hd:2,\boot\grub.img" , "boot hd/2,\boot hd:
2,\powerpc-ieee1275\core.elf", or even the default "boot" commands.
In my nvram, the "boot" command is "boot /ht@0,f2000000/pci@5/k2-sata-
root@c/@-1/@0:2,\powerpac-ieee1275\core.elf"
All of them fail with a "device not found" error.
It seems that upgrading the system has broken the grub partition or
the boot command in nvram. Is it a known issue ?
What could I do ? Should I try a netinstall iso to reinstall grub and
which iso should I download (which date) ?
Last question : should now a "linux" volume be visible in the mac boot
menu (the one we get by pressing the "alt" key at startup) or is it
still invisible as it was monthes ago ?
Thanks ?
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