Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

2008-06-15 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, Jun 15 2008, at 01:21 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My two cents to the discution : what gives you the following command : nvsetenv boot-device mine returns : boot-device=hd:2,yaboot # nvsetenv boot-device boot-device=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL

Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

2008-06-15 Thread Steven DuBois
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 12:28:51AM +0200, Michal wrote: I mailed this list a couple weeks ago about yaboot returning to a grey screen when I try to boot both OS X and Linux. Well, the problem is still there and I have been trying to fix it for a long time now. I have what looks like

Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

2008-06-15 Thread Steven DuBois
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 12:28:51AM +0200, Michal wrote: I mailed this list a couple weeks ago about yaboot returning to a grey screen when I try to boot both OS X and Linux. Well, the problem is still there and I have been trying to fix it for a long time now. I have what looks like

Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

2008-06-14 Thread Steven DuBois
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 01:12:23AM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Mon, Jun 09 2008, at 15:16 -0400, Steven DuBois wrote: ofpath just shows a colon and sdb# after /[EMAIL PROTECTED]: (ofpath /dev/sdb2 shows /[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2) How does your yaboot.conf look like? What error

Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

2008-06-14 Thread Michal
I mailed this list a couple weeks ago about yaboot returning to a grey screen when I try to boot both OS X and Linux. Well, the problem is still there and I have been trying to fix it for a long time now. I have what looks like the same problem for a long time too. While I would love to

Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

2008-06-14 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, Jun 14 2008, at 15:38 -0400, Steven DuBois wrote: my yaboot.conf looks like this boot=/dev/sdb2 device=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: partition=4 root=/dev/sdb4 timeout=100 magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot install=/usr/lib/yaboot enablecdboot macosx=/dev/sdb3 image=/boot/vmlinux

Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

2008-06-14 Thread grave
Hi, My two cents to the discution : what gives you the following command : nvsetenv boot-device mine returns : boot-device=hd:2,yaboot If you don't have this just do : nvsetenv boot-device hd:2,yaboot Before doing this I had problem with the openfirmware env variable set to something I didn't

Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

2008-06-09 Thread Steven DuBois
ofpath just shows a colon and sdb# after /[EMAIL PROTECTED]: (ofpath /dev/sdb2 shows /[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2) mac-fdisk /dev/sdb shows the following /dev/sdb # type namelength base ( size ) sytem /dev/sdb1 Apple_partition_map Apple

Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

2008-06-09 Thread Rogério Brito
Please, Steven, don't top-post. On Jun 09 2008, Steven DuBois wrote: ofpath just shows a colon and sdb# after /[EMAIL PROTECTED]: (ofpath /dev/sdb2 shows /[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2) Great that now you are not mounting the disk anymore. :-) mac-fdisk /dev/sdb shows the following /dev/sdb

Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

2008-06-09 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, Jun 09 2008, at 15:16 -0400, Steven DuBois wrote: ofpath just shows a colon and sdb# after /[EMAIL PROTECTED]: (ofpath /dev/sdb2 shows /[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2) How does your yaboot.conf look like? What error messages does the system give you when trying to boot? Is there anything else

Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

2008-06-08 Thread Steven DuBois
I mailed this list a couple weeks ago about yaboot returning to a grey screen when I try to boot both OS X and Linux. Well, the problem is still there and I have been trying to fix it for a long time now. This is my yaboot.conf boot=/dev/sdb2 device=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: partition=4

Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

2008-06-08 Thread Samy Mezani
Your device seems wrong and yaboot can't be started by openfirmware. For example, in mine yaboot.conf : device=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Have you try sudo ybin -v in terminal ? Samy Steven DuBois a écrit : I mailed this list a couple weeks ago

Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

2008-06-08 Thread Steven DuBois
I did try ybin -v and it ran fine. Should i try to change the device to what you have? I have a Dual 1.8Ghz Power Mac G5. On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:48:27PM +0200, Samy Mezani wrote: Your device seems wrong and yaboot can't be started by openfirmware. For example, in mine yaboot.conf :

Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

2008-06-08 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, Jun 08 2008, at 17:17 -0400, Steven DuBois wrote: I did try ybin -v and it ran fine. Should i try to change the device to what you have? I have a Dual 1.8Ghz Power Mac G5. There's a tool on Debian called ofpath. It finds you the correct Openfirmware path to your bootstrap partition.

Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

2008-06-08 Thread Steven DuBois
Debian was installed on /dev/sdb4, so i mounted it, chroot'd it and ran macfdisk /dev/sdb4 and then p. It then said that no partition map exists. Not entirely sure what to do here and I dont want to make a mistake. On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 01:11:27AM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Sun,

Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

2008-06-08 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Steven. On Jun 08 2008, Steven DuBois wrote: Debian was installed on /dev/sdb4, so i mounted it, chroot'd it and ran macfdisk /dev/sdb4 and then p. It then said that no partition map exists. Indeed, that's because you mounted the partition. You should run macfdisk (or whatever it is

Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

2008-06-08 Thread Gunther Furtado
Wolfgang Pfeiffer escreveu: On Sun, Jun 08 2008, at 17:17 -0400, Steven DuBois wrote: I did try ybin -v and it ran fine. Should i try to change the device to what you have? I have a Dual 1.8Ghz Power Mac G5. There's a tool on Debian called ofpath. It finds you the correct

Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

2008-06-08 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jun 08 2008, Gunther Furtado wrote: Alternatively, you could try booting into openfirmware (Opt+Command+O+F just after the shime) and issuing dev / ls and devalias to determine the correct path to your disk. Yes, that is the most hassle free solution, as it does not require booting any

Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

2008-06-08 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, Jun 08 2008, at 22:44 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: On Jun 08 2008, Gunther Furtado wrote: Alternatively, you could try booting into openfirmware (Opt+Command+O+F just after the shime) and issuing dev / ls and devalias to determine the correct path to your disk. Yes, that is