Re: open firmware and my etch boot

2007-06-18 Thread ebenoit
does yabootconfig have to reside on sda1? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, back to square one: I command, option, P, R the prom then did an install wiping out the old partions my partitions are labled as follows Part. 1 is called Apple it is a newworld partition Part. 2 is called Untitled it is a

Re: open firmware and my etch boot

2007-06-18 Thread xavier grave
Le lundi 18 juin 2007 à 09:33 -0400, ebenoit a écrit : does yabootconfig have to reside on sda1? I don't think so... It has to be somewhere it can be executed... But in order to do a good job it need to have an apple bootstrap partition. Here is my partition table on my dual G4 mac : /dev/hda

Re: keyboard on ibook G4 with kernel 2.6.18

2007-06-18 Thread leandro noferini
Emil Nowak ha scritto: Is there anyone who has keyboard working on iBook G4 on kernel 2.6.18 ? Here is my BTS report: http://bugs.debian.org/428807 My ibook works fine with 2.6.20-1 home-compiled and I have tried also with a 2.6.21 (don't remember the last number). If you like I will

taking advantage of labels in yaboot,conf

2007-06-18 Thread 2g
i have OSX,Debian,Slackintosh installed on my iBookG4 am ybin-ing the yaboot.conf below so if i push L yes Debian comes up but i cannot figure out how to make Slackintosh boot how does the label over here work? tia 2g- http://micro.ispretty.com -- Start

MOL and the official Etch kernel

2007-06-18 Thread Andrew J. Barr
I am having a strange timer issue with MOL 0.9.73-SVN, the official 2.6.18-4-powerpc Etch kernel, and Mac OS X 10.4.9 on a Powerbook5,7 (PowerPC 7447A 1.67GHz CPU). Mac OS seems to be running too fast, e.g. when I shut down or restart the confirmation box's timer runs waaay too fast. Icons bounce

Re: taking advantage of labels in yaboot,conf

2007-06-18 Thread 2g
oh my god! forgot to put my yaboot.conf there ## yaboot.conf generated by debian-installer ## ## run: man yaboot.conf for details. Do not make changes until you have!! ## see also: /usr/share/doc/yaboot/examples for example configurations. ## ## For a dual-boot menu, add one or more of: ##

found the answer but doesn't work .. was Re: taking advantage of labels in yaboot,conf

2007-06-18 Thread 2g
always me ... excuse me the answer was push tab key and type the thing i want but ... it always results into booting Debian ... why is that? --- 2g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: oh my god! forgot to put my yaboot.conf there ## yaboot.conf generated by debian-installer ## ## run: man

Re: found the answer but doesn't work .. was Re: taking advantage of labels in yaboot,conf

2007-06-18 Thread 2g
thanks to those that directly responsed to me the problem seems to have been the way i let root= line be now i have yaboot,conf as followings and happy with [tab] then s to go slacky i saw alias= thing in someone's conf but wondering if the default= line for that will have conflict with