On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:54:44PM -0500, William Harrington wrote: > > > > On Sep 23, 2013, at 22:22, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 1. Any recommendations for a rescue CD to chroot to the old system ? > > I suppose that means I'll need to find my old mac keyboard to be > > able to open the CD drive. #$^@"* this for a game of skittles :-( > > Probably any recent PowerPC64 distro with a lived. I mostly use Debian these > days. > > > > > 2. Any ideas what I've done wrong in compiling/installing yaboot ? > > I haven't thoroughly tested yaboot. In fact well need a patch to use parted > instead of macfdisk. It's not much work. Something I'll finish soon. > > Sincerely, > > William Harrington
Thanks for the reply. I started with debian's latest (might have been testing or unstable, not sure) but it's too new for my old previous system - able to chroot, but couldn't work out the ofpath variables for the NewWorld bootblock and OSX partitions - old google reports suggest the kernel config on the CD doesn't support CONFIG_IDE_PROC_FS (that system is three years old). Looked for older things : fedora 12 is still available, and looks a suitable date, but it's an install not a Live CD (and didn't find my mouse to set TZ stuff, so I had to stop). Ubuntu's oldest is 12.04 - the mini iso gives the dreaded 'unknown or corrupt filesystem' message (maybe it only has a ppc32 kernel), the desktop version (live-ppc64 kernel) starts to boot but then loses all video. After which I tried this week's gentoo minimal iso (20130922) : that works fine, let me chroot and run ybin from the old system. So now my new system is running again. :-) Interestingly, gentoo found itself (the cdrom) at /dev/hda so I guess my attempt to recompile the kernel to try to use /dev/sr0 for CDs was a wasted effort. Will need to look at my udev rules. Ah, the fun of this! For now, I've renamed ybin in the new system so I can't accidentally use it, but I'll keep that CD in the drive in case I start experimenting ;-) ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce _______________________________________________ Clfs-support mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cross-lfs.org/listinfo.cgi/clfs-support-cross-lfs.org
