Re: Dual Boot Won't

2011-08-16 Thread Gunther Furtado
2011/8/16 David Lowe : >        Well, i'm back with the next trauma.  I may not have mentioned it > previously, but my PowerBook is partitioned for dual booting -  the other > side has a basic Leopard setup [it no longer has the password to wifi] but > it has some games that my wife really likes.  

Dual Boot Won't

2011-08-16 Thread David Lowe
Well, i'm back with the next trauma. I may not have mentioned it previously, but my PowerBook is partitioned for dual booting - the other side has a basic Leopard setup [it no longer has the password to wifi] but it has some games that my wife really likes. Anyway, i restored the Mac si

Re: Dual Boot Mac Os 9 and Debian PPC

2008-05-27 Thread José JORGE
A Tuesday 27 May 2008 12:42:31, Samy Mezani escreveu: > hi, > > I had the same problem with MacOS 8.6, resolved now. > You should try to boot with MacOS CD, open Hard disk tool, click on > , then Fonctions menu and Update. > Sorry for bad translations, I have only the french MacOs version. > > Samy

Re: Latest possible dual boot installation on iBook 300Mhz

2007-06-14 Thread Ennio-Sr
* Pierre Bauduin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> < > > 2007/6/9, Ennio-Sr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [...] > > Did you try what I explain at the end of Debian bug number 422836 ? > Look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=422836 > > Here's the "trick" I found: > > The only way I know to

Re: No dual boot after installing Debian Etch on iBook

2007-06-14 Thread Ennio-Sr
Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> < > [2007-06-10]: > On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 the mental interface of > Ennio-Sr told: > > [...] > > Then I rebooted from a _powerpc net-installer_ CD and installed the > > Debian_40r0-powerpc, re-partitioning the big Debian partition into 13 > > ext2 parts pl

Re: No dual boot after installing Debian Etch on iBook

2007-06-09 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 the mental interface of Ennio-Sr told: [...] > Then I rebooted from a _powerpc net-installer_ CD and installed the > Debian_40r0-powerpc, re-partitioning the big Debian partition into 13 > ext2 parts plus a small Apple_bootstrap one. Added the macos= line in > /etc/yaboot.conf,

Re: Latest possible dual boot installation on iBook 300Mhz

2007-06-09 Thread Ennio-Sr
* Pierre Bauduin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> < > > 2007/6/9, Ennio-Sr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [...] > > Did you try what I explain at the end of Debian bug number 422836 ? > Look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=422836 > > Here's the "trick" I found: > > The only way I know to

Re: Latest possible dual boot installation on iBook 300Mhz

2007-06-09 Thread Ennio-Sr
* Pierre Bauduin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> < > > 2007/6/9, Ennio-Sr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [...] > > Did you try what I explain at the end of Debian bug number 422836 ? > Look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=422836 > > Here's the "trick" I found: > > The only way I know to

Re: No dual boot after installing Debian Etch on iBook

2007-06-09 Thread Ennio-Sr
Hi Pierre, thanks for your rapid answer: I hope you'll get my reply as soon as possible (although subscribed I am not receiving messages from the list and not all posts I sent went through ;-( ) * Pierre Bauduin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> < > [2007-06-08]: > --=_Part_78649_49780.1181313729169 >

Re: Latest possible dual boot installation on iBook 300Mhz

2007-06-09 Thread Pierre Bauduin
2007/6/9, Ennio-Sr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi all. as the install-de_install processes are time cosuming could any of you please tell me which is the latest Debian-powerpc version that can be installed on an iBook without distroying Mac OS 9? Hi, I'm not sure this well help you, but ... Did yo

Latest possible dual boot installation on iBook 300Mhz

2007-06-09 Thread Ennio-Sr
Hi all. as the install-de_install processes are time cosuming could any of you please tell me which is the latest Debian-powerpc version that can be installed on an iBook without distroying Mac OS 9? In my previous post I reported Debian-Etch_40.r0 failure to this respect, but I'm not sure whethe

Re: No dual boot after installing Debian Etch on iBook

2007-06-08 Thread Pierre Bauduin
2007/6/8, Ennio-Sr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [Sorry for POSSIBLE DUPLICATE] Hi all, I replaced the 3GB HD of my ibook (MacOS9 and Debian (Sarge) ppc happily working on it) with a brand new 80GB HD. I booted from an OS 9 CD, made 4 hfs+ partitions (70 GB reserved for Debian, the other 3 for Mac OS 9

No dual boot after installing Debian Etch on iBook

2007-06-08 Thread Ennio-Sr
[Sorry for POSSIBLE DUPLICATE] Hi all, I replaced the 3GB HD of my ibook (MacOS9 and Debian (Sarge) ppc happily working on it) with a brand new 80GB HD. I booted from an OS 9 CD, made 4 hfs+ partitions (70 GB reserved for Debian, the other 3 for Mac OS 9, Mac OS X and an Xchange partition), insta

Re: no dual-boot after (re)install on ibook G3

2007-05-08 Thread brian
two ways I know to bless macos; I have occassionally had to as maconlinux deblessed. (by the way did you try starting mac os with that ?) you have a macos boot cd, you need that .(even the incomplete 9.2 upgrade cd that came w/ 10.1) boot from that. if in macos 9, look at the system folder on yo

no dual-boot after (re)install on ibook G3

2007-05-07 Thread Norbert Lange-Schäfer
I can't get the dualboot to work (again). Bevor installing Debian 4.0 from the newest CDROM I had Debian 3.1 and macos(9) and no Problems to choose at the boot-prompt. During the install yaboot only found the Linux-Partition. After the first reboot I added "macos=/dev/hda10" in yaboot.conf and

Re: Yaboot won't boot OS X with Ubuntu/OS X dual boot Power Mac G5.

2006-01-25 Thread Brian Durant
On 24. jan 2006, at 14.31, Charles Plessy wrote: What is the result of /sbin/cfdisk -P t /dev/sda ? /sbin/cfdisk -P t /dev/sdb ? Maybe this will help? $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda Password: /dev/sda #type name length base ( size ) system /dev

Re: Yaboot won't boot OS X with Ubuntu/OS X dual boot Power Mac G5.

2006-01-25 Thread Brian Durant
On 24. jan 2006, at 14.31, Charles Plessy wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:47:35PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote : Hi Charles, Yes, I see your point. The thing is that still being newbieish to both Linux and OS X, I don't fully understand this. Here is what I know: Hi, I am also very uncomfo

Re: Yaboot won't boot OS X with Ubuntu/OS X dual boot Power Mac G5.

2006-01-24 Thread Brian Durant
On 24. jan 2006, at 14.31, Charles Plessy wrote:On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:47:35PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote : Hi Charles,Yes, I see your point. The thing is that still being newbieish to  both Linux and OS X, I don't fully understand this. Here is what I know: Hi,I am also very uncomfortable with

Re: Yaboot won't boot OS X with Ubuntu/OS X dual boot Power Mac G5.

2006-01-24 Thread Noah Slater
If you swap the physical location of your hard drives around so that your primary drive is sitting in the secondary drive bay - do you still experience problems? When I was trying to install, Yaboot refused to boot into Debian unless it's partition was located on the primary disk. HTH, Noah On 1

Re: Yaboot won't boot OS X with Ubuntu/OS X dual boot Power Mac G5.

2006-01-24 Thread Brian Durant
On 24. jan 2006, at 11.53, Charles Plessy wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:24:18AM +0100, Brian Durant wrote : boot=/dev/sda2 root=/dev/sda3 macosx=/dev/sdb3 Did you check this one ? It seems that the person who started the thread had a problem similar to yours (although symmetric). ht

Re: Yaboot won't boot OS X with Ubuntu/OS X dual boot Power Mac G5.

2006-01-24 Thread Brian Durant
un: "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: ## bsd=/dev/hdaX, macos=/dev/hdaY, macosx=/dev/hdaZ boot=/dev/sda2 device=/[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Yaboot won't boot OS X with Ubuntu/OS X dual boot Power Mac G5.

2006-01-24 Thread Charles Plessy
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 09:06:08AM +0100, Brian Durant wrote : > OK, now I have gotten Ubuntu installed and running on my Power Mac > G5. However, I have run into a problem with Yaboot and OS X. Yaboot > simply can't load OS X. it tries, and the screen flickers, but > nothing happens. After t

Yaboot won't boot OS X with Ubuntu/OS X dual boot Power Mac G5.

2006-01-24 Thread Brian Durant
OK, now I have gotten Ubuntu installed and running on my Power Mac G5. However, I have run into a problem with Yaboot and OS X. Yaboot simply can't load OS X. it tries, and the screen flickers, but nothing happens. After three tries, it says something like "booting Mac OS X..." and nothing

Re: Dual boot with usb

2005-04-28 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
On 26 Apr 2005, at 11:39, José Manuel Pérez wrote: Hi all. I have an iBook G4 (12 inches) and till las week dual boot with OSX and Debian. Debian crashed (I can´t access partition) and would like to instakll again it. But now, I have an external usb hard disk into wich I would like to install

Dual boot with usb

2005-04-26 Thread José Manuel Pérez
Hi all. I have an iBook G4 (12 inches) and till las week dual boot with OSX and Debian. Debian crashed (I can´t access partition) and would like to instakll again it. But now, I have an external usb hard disk into wich I would like to install Debian. I've been searching (google, mac web, etc

Re: Dual-boot problem with OSX 10.3.9 (OT ish)

2005-04-25 Thread Eddy Petrisor
This mail was in my mail queue due to my "wise" ISP. Apparently I also have my IP (dorm wide) listed in rsbl... and is only them (and is the lame ftp-url relaying scheme which does not apply). Freaking rsbl! Eddy Petrisor wrote: Mauro wrote: On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 21:49 +0300, Eddy Petrisor wrote:

Re: Dual-boot problem with OSX 10.3.9 (OT ish)

2005-04-24 Thread Clive Menzies
nd I > >>was > >>forced to reset. Invariably the clock was set to 1-jan-1904 and I had > >>problems with various gnome applets. I'm not sure this is relevant but there is an issue on dual boot if you set your h/w clock within base-config. You could try # dpkg-reconfigur

Re: Dual-boot problem with OSX 10.3.9 (OT ish)

2005-04-24 Thread Eddy Petrisor
Mauro wrote: On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 21:49 +0300, Eddy Petrisor wrote: I have encountered the clock problem when using the ubuntu kernel 2.6.10. After most of the sleeps the laptop could not recover and I was forced to reset. Invariably the clock was set to 1-jan-1904 and I had problems with vario

Re: Dual-boot problem with OSX 10.3.9 (OT ish)

2005-04-19 Thread Mauro
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 21:49 +0300, Eddy Petrisor wrote: > > I have encountered the clock problem when using the ubuntu kernel > 2.6.10. After most of the sleeps the laptop could not recover and I > was > forced to reset. Invariably the clock was set to 1-jan-1904 and I had > problems with vario

Re: Dual-boot problem with OSX 10.3.9 (OT ish)

2005-04-19 Thread Eddy Petrisor
James Tappin wrote: It looks as if the upgrade managed to trash the hardware clock setting, and in addition when I booted to Linux, the wireless base station was weak so that the network was effectively down when ntpdate tried to run -- as a result on Linux I was getting a date of 1-Jan-1904. After

Re: Dual-boot problem with OSX 10.3.9 (OT ish)

2005-04-18 Thread Clive Menzies
On (18/04/05 17:42), James Tappin wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:28:17 +0100 > James Tappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > JT> I have a G3 iBook that is supposed to dual-boot Debian/Sarge and > JT> MacOS X. > JT> > JT> I use the yaboot boot loader, but sin

Re: Dual-boot problem with OSX 10.3.9 (OT ish)

2005-04-18 Thread James Tappin
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:28:17 +0100 James Tappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JT> I have a G3 iBook that is supposed to dual-boot Debian/Sarge and JT> MacOS X. JT> JT> I use the yaboot boot loader, but since the latest OSX release JT> (10.3.9) I can only boot Linux. Whenever

Dual-boot problem with OSX 10.3.9 (OT ish)

2005-04-18 Thread James Tappin
I have a G3 iBook that is supposed to dual-boot Debian/Sarge and MacOS X. I use the yaboot boot loader, but since the latest OSX release (10.3.9) I can only boot Linux. Whenever I try to boot OSX it comes up with the Apple logo then powers itself down again. I've tried rerunning ybin with n

Re: MacOSX & Debian dual boot questions...

2005-03-16 Thread Michael
Jochen Voss wrote: Hello Michael, On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:17:31PM -0800, Michael wrote: http-equiv="Content-Type"> At least for the debian mailing lists it would be nice if you could teach your mail program not to send HTML emails. Also see http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#c

Re: MacOSX & Debian dual boot questions...

2005-03-16 Thread Mauro
> "unblessed" the bootstrap partition on hda, and I no longer had > the > > > dual-boot menu to get into Linux. simple: boot up with option button, choose linux ==> boots into linux, run ybin (as su?). Subsequent reboots should give you yaboot again. -- To UN

Re: MacOSX & Debian dual boot questions...

2005-03-16 Thread Michael
first and I get the dual-boot menu. The main reason I'm writing this note is because I got into a little bit of nastiness when I needed to upgrade OS 9, which I use 99% of the time from the Classic environment in Panther. In order to update QuickTime in OS 9, I had to use the "St

Re: MacOSX & Debian dual boot questions...

2005-03-16 Thread Daniel E. Jonsen
to use the "Startup Disk" control panel and choose the OS 9 system > folder to reboot into pure OS 9. The problem is that this process > "unblessed" the bootstrap partition on hda, and I no longer had the > dual-boot menu to get into Linux. > > I found a "bless&qu

Re: MacOSX & Debian dual boot questions...

2005-03-16 Thread Clive Menzies
irst and I > get the dual-boot menu. > > The main reason I'm writing this note is because I got into a little bit of > nastiness when I needed to upgrade OS 9, which I use 99% of the time from > the Classic environment in Panther. In order to update QuickTime in OS 9, > I

Re: MacOSX & Debian dual boot questions...

2005-03-16 Thread Daniel E. Jonsen
installer could *$!@ with it, and installed from a set of 14 Sarge testing CDs. After reconnecting hdb, the small bootstrap partition on hda is still the first blessed partition on the system, so yaboot is loaded first and I get the dual-boot menu. The main reason I'm writing this no

Re: MacOSX & Debian dual boot questions...

2005-03-15 Thread Barry Hawkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tamas K Papp wrote: [...] | | I think if you choose manual partitioning, you need to create a small | (1 MB) bootstrap partition manually for yaboot. There should be space | between the 32k drivers partition (#1) and the HFS (#3). | | I would recommend

Re: MacOSX & Debian dual boot questions...

2005-03-15 Thread Tamas K Papp
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:43:38PM +0100, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > Ciao Charles Read, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > > > Should I (in OSX) repartition and leave a blank partition (for Debian), > > reinstall MacOSX, then install Debian? > > Right. Or, disable the HFS+ journal, resize the OSX partitio

Re: MacOSX & Debian dual boot questions...

2005-03-15 Thread Jack Malmostoso
Ciao Charles Read, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > Should I (in OSX) repartition and leave a blank partition (for Debian), > reinstall MacOSX, then install Debian? Right. Or, disable the HFS+ journal, resize the OSX partition (works with newest parted and d-i, I guess), reenable the journal and then

Re: MacOSX & Debian dual boot questions...

2005-03-15 Thread Paul J. Lucas
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Charles Read wrote: Should I (in OSX) repartition and leave a blank partition (for Debian), reinstall MacOSX, then install Debian? If so how does my Mac know to use yaboot instead of proceeding down OSX's 'boot path'? 1. Run Disk Utility and repartition the disk into "free

MacOSX & Debian dual boot questions...

2005-03-15 Thread Charles Read
'? I have intalled just Debian on a G5 and it works GREAT but I am confused and apprehensive about doing a dual boot install w/ OSX. Any suggestions and insights are much appreciated!!! Thanks in advance as always Charles Read -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Pre-install partitions & dual boot

2004-05-14 Thread Eric D. Hedekar
osible) so that when the 9.1gig Mac OS arrives I can dual boot. I realize I may have to wait until that arrives before I configure this. I guess I should mention that I'm running an Umax S900 with a G3 upgrade card, so I'll be using the oldworld boot system. What I'm basically

Re: Re: Help - no dual boot after upgrading OS X

2003-11-13 Thread Barry C . Hawkins
-- J. Javier Maestro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://rigel.homelinux.com On Nov Tue 11 2003 04:33, Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi.. I just upgraded to OS X.3 and looks like the installer wiped the boot loader... so I don't get the dual boot option anymore.. I don't have the debian inst

Re: Help - no dual boot after upgrading OS X

2003-11-11 Thread Nirmal Govind
I'm not sure ;) Try rebooting without rerunning ybin and if it works you needn't bother. Yes, I rebooted without running ybin just to check and it worked again.. so I guess I'll just leave it at that then.. :-) Thanks again, nirmal

Re: Help - no dual boot after upgrading OS X

2003-11-11 Thread Nirmal Govind
> Resetting the PRAM should get you back to a boot prompt so that you can > boot into Linux and rerun ybin. Ctl+Alt+P+R > Oh Cool!! That worked... thanks a lot! Btw, why do I need to rerun ybin if the PRAM reset did the trick? Is there something else that ybin will do? Thanks, nirmal

Re: Help - no dual boot after upgrading OS X

2003-11-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/11/03 06:35), Nirmal Govind wrote: > > Resetting the PRAM should get you back to a boot prompt so that you can > > boot into Linux and rerun ybin. Ctl+Alt+P+R > > > > Oh Cool!! That worked... thanks a lot! Btw, why do I need to rerun ybin if the > PRAM reset did the trick? Is there someth

Re: Help - no dual boot after upgrading OS X

2003-11-11 Thread Nirmal Govind
just in case): > > mount /dev/hdaX /target > > Hopefully, you will be able to run ybin and fix it there. > > Cheers, > > -- > J. Javier Maestro > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://rigel.homelinux.com > > > On Nov Tue 11 2003 04:33, Nirmal Govind wr

Re: Help - no dual boot after upgrading OS X

2003-11-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/11/03 10:51), Clive Menzies wrote: > Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:51:10 + > From: Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Nirmal Govind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Help - no dual boot after upgrading OS X > > O

Re: Help - no dual boot after upgrading OS X

2003-11-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/11/03 04:33), Nirmal Govind wrote: > Hi.. I just upgraded to OS X.3 and looks like the installer wiped the boot > loader... so I don't get the dual boot option anymore.. I don't have the > debian > install cd with me either.. is there any way of booting into the linux

Re: Help - no dual boot after upgrading OS X

2003-11-11 Thread J. Javier Maestro
ev/hdaX /target Hopefully, you will be able to run ybin and fix it there. Cheers, -- J. Javier Maestro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://rigel.homelinux.com On Nov Tue 11 2003 04:33, Nirmal Govind wrote: > Hi.. I just upgraded to OS X.3 and looks like the installer wiped the boot > loader

Help - no dual boot after upgrading OS X

2003-11-11 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. I just upgraded to OS X.3 and looks like the installer wiped the boot loader... so I don't get the dual boot option anymore.. I don't have the debian install cd with me either.. is there any way of booting into the linux partition so that I can rerun ybin and setup yaboot again with

Re: Erased boot partition on OSX Debian dual boot

2003-04-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 12:22:26PM -0700, Richard Cochinos wrote: > > I by accident erased the boot partition on the OSX side of my machine. It > happened when I reformated one of the drives on the Mac side. > > I am currently running Debian and OSX with yaboot as my loader. > > For some reason

Erased boot partition on OSX Debian dual boot

2003-04-14 Thread Richard Cochinos
I by accident erased the boot partition on the OSX side of my machine. It happened when I reformated one of the drives on the Mac side. I am currently running Debian and OSX with yaboot as my loader. For some reason I can't seem to find much helpful documentation on how to reset the loader back

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-13 Thread Segher Boessenkool
Clive Menzies wrote: My G4 is at least a couple of years old (Sawtooth?) AGP Gigabit - so it That's "Mystic", one revision newer than Sawtooth. Segher

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 03:23 pm, Chris Tillman wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:35:18AM +, Clive Menzies wrote: [snip] I have progress of sorts in that it will now boot into OSX (without having to hold Option on start-up) but I still need OF (Cmd+Opt+O+F) to boot Linux. So

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-10 Thread Nicolai Langfeldt
Jeroen Diederen wrote: Did you guys know that OSX has to reside within the first 8 Gb of the hard disk ? That's odd. My OSX is at the 45th GigaByte or so. The Yellow Dog install guide recommends that the OSX partition is the last on the disk. Maybe the 8Gb limit is related to some older ve

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-10 Thread Brad Boyer
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 08:52:32PM +, gimli wrote: > > Did you guys know that OSX has to reside within the first 8 Gb of the > > hard disk ? > > My OS X is past the first 15 GB of my drive and it works just fine... The 8G limit only applies to older versions of Open Firmware that still used a

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-10 Thread gimli
> Did you guys know that OSX has to reside within the first 8 Gb of the > hard disk ? My OS X is past the first 15 GB of my drive and it works just fine...

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-10 Thread Jeroen Diederen
Clive Menzies wrote: On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 04:19 am, Chris Tillman wrote: On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 11:25:08PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: yaboot.conf: boot=/dev/hda2 (where Apple_Bootstrap resides) magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot brokenosx (added as a suggested fix but makes n

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-10 Thread J Q Private
--- Jeroen Diederen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > MacOS should be in the 1st 8 or 9 GB... > Huh? My MacOS isn't until the 40th Gigabyte. The apple driver partitions and Apple_bootstrap are right at the beginning of the drive, though. _

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-10 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:35:18AM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > >Try, first: ybin -v to see if any errors are reported. > I ran "/usr/sbin/ybin -b /dev/hda2 -v" and was asked if I wanted to > create an HFS partition. I first answered No and it aborted; so I ran > it again answering Yes and

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 04:19 am, Chris Tillman wrote: On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 11:25:08PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: yaboot.conf: boot=/dev/hda2 (where Apple_Bootstrap resides) magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot brokenosx (added as a suggested fix but makes no difference) macosx=hd:

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-09 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 11:25:08PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > >Did you already post your yaboot.conf and /etc/fstab? > This transcribed rather than cut and pasted and I've not included the > comment lines > > yaboot.conf: > > boot=/dev/hda2 (where Apple_Bootstrap resides) > magicboot=/usr/lib

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 10:26 pm, Chris Tillman wrote: On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 03:13:39PM -0800, vinai wrote: On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Clive Menzies wrote: Thanks for this. It raises a couple of questions: 1. In the yaboot HOWTO it recommends re-ordering the Apple_bootstrap partiti

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 11:13 pm, vinai wrote: On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Clive Menzies wrote: Thanks for this. It raises a couple of questions: 1. In the yaboot HOWTO it recommends re-ordering the Apple_bootstrap partition to 2 - yours is on 9 and presumably works OK. Why the recomm

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-09 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 03:13:39PM -0800, vinai wrote: > On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > Thanks for this. It raises a couple of questions: > > 1. In the yaboot HOWTO it recommends re-ordering the Apple_bootstrap > > partition to 2 - yours is on 9 and presumably works OK. Why the

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-09 Thread Jeroen Diederen
Clive Menzies wrote: On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 06:32 pm, J Q Private wrote: But I am having trouble getting Yaboot to work properly. OSX 10.2 was installed over OS 9,2 on the same HFS partition (/dev/hda10). Partition Map /dev/hda1 Apple_bootstrap /dev/hda2 Apple_Driver 43 /dev/hda3

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-09 Thread vinai
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Clive Menzies wrote: > Thanks for this. It raises a couple of questions: > 1.In the yaboot HOWTO it recommends re-ordering the Apple_bootstrap > partition to 2 - yours is on 9 and presumably works OK. Why the > recommendation? I believe Ethan recommended to do it this wa

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 06:32 pm, J Q Private wrote: But I am having trouble getting Yaboot to work properly. OSX 10.2 was installed over OS 9,2 on the same HFS partition (/dev/hda10). Partition Map /dev/hda1 Apple_bootstrap /dev/hda2 Apple_Driver 43 /dev/hda3 Apple_Driver 43 /dev/hda

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-09 Thread J Q Private
> I've read Chris's excellent HOWTO on Booting with > Yaboot on PowerPC and > the penguinppc.org mac-fdisk doc. Have created and > reordered the > Apple-Bootstrap partition to /dev/hda2. I can OF > boot Linux and can > get into OSX by holding down Option key during > start-up. But I am > h

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-07 Thread Clive Menzies
On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 08:37 pm, Derrik Pates wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:42:21PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: Doesn't seem to help. I checked the man yaboot.conf page; it refers to HFS+ but my set-up is totally HFS. No, if you're running OS X off of it, it's HFS+. OS X doesn

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-07 Thread Derrik Pates
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:42:21PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > Doesn't seem to help. I checked the man yaboot.conf page; it refers to > HFS+ but my set-up is totally HFS. No, if you're running OS X off of it, it's HFS+. OS X doesn't support HFS as a boot volume. Did you try putting the option

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-07 Thread Clive Menzies
On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 02:50 am, Patrick Baltz wrote: I had something similar happen to me with my pismo powerbook at one point. I think I ended up reinstalling yaboot cleanly with an older version. I never investigated or had enough knowledge to figure out the actual cause, but I

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-07 Thread Clive Menzies
On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 03:05 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I've run ybin after changes But straight booting sticks on something like "Starting bootstrap second stage " and just stops. If I reboot into OF and type "boot hd:2,yaboot",

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-06 Thread dpates
Quoting Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've run ybin after changes > > But straight booting sticks on something like "Starting bootstrap > second stage " and just stops. If I reboot into OF and type "boot > > hd:2,yaboot", Linux boots fine (I used the sample yaboot.conf from 6.5 > >

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-06 Thread Patrick Baltz
I had something similar happen to me with my pismo powerbook at one point. I think I ended up reinstalling yaboot cleanly with an older version. I never investigated or had enough knowledge to figure out the actual cause, but I think it may have be a corrupted file or something. Maybe try pu

Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-06 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi I've read Chris's excellent HOWTO on Booting with Yaboot on PowerPC and the penguinppc.org mac-fdisk doc. Have created and reordered the Apple-Bootstrap partition to /dev/hda2. I can OF boot Linux and can get into OSX by holding down Option key during start-up. But I am having trouble g

Re: dual boot - OS X & Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 10:47:43PM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > On Apr 20 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > > Related, I just finished hacking on a mini-iso.sh script to make it > > work for powerpc. > > Humm... > > Did you read my earlier message about a bootable CD? :-) Is > it

Re: dual boot - OS X & Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Rogério Brito
On Apr 20 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > Related, I just finished hacking on a mini-iso.sh script to make it > work for powerpc. Humm... Did you read my earlier message about a bootable CD? :-) Is it working well? > cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/powerpc-specials/mini-iso.s

Re: dual boot - OS X & Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:40:27PM -0700, Jonathan wheeler wrote: > Hello, > > New to the list, and i was wondering if anyone has had any sucess with a dual > boot of OS X and Debian. Everyone i have talked to say they have tons of > trouble with open firmware. I've look

Re: dual boot - OS X & Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Philipp Schmidt
On Sat, 2002-04-20 17:28:20 -0300, Rog?rio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Apr 20 2002, Philipp Schmidt wrote: > > my iBook does not recognize the harddisk properly when booting of cd > > or having a cd in the drive > > Which iBook do you have? I'm no

Re: dual boot - OS X & Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Rogério Brito
On Apr 20 2002, Philipp Schmidt wrote: > my iBook does not recognize the harddisk properly when booting of cd > or having a cd in the drive Which iBook do you have? I'm not with my iBook here, but I'd like to test mine to see if it has this (weird) behaviour... []s, R

Re: dual boot - OS X & Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Philipp Schmidt
On Sat, 2002-04-20 11:25:33 -0600, Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Anyone know for sure if the kernel on this netinst CD will have the drivers > for > the Apple Airport? I know some time ago the only way to get these working > was to > compile a benh kernel

Re: dual boot - OS X & Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Nate Duehr
Anyone know for sure if the kernel on this netinst CD will have the drivers for the Apple Airport? I know some time ago the only way to get these working was to compile a benh kernel, but I'm sure the world has moved on since then... it was quite a while ago. I have a machine that has an older v

Re: dual boot - OS X & Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Ali Bahar
> New to the list, and i was wondering if anyone has had any sucess with a dual > boot of OS X and Debian. Everyone i have talked to say they have tons of > trouble with open firmware. I've looked around on the net, and i can't seem > to find anything about it either :( m

Re: dual boot - OS X & Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
On Samstag, April 20, 2002, at 08:16 Uhr, Janne Karjanlahti wrote:  >One more thing, does anyone know where i could get a bootable net install image for mac? or if one even exists? Try these: http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/ Daniel --- Quarkness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: dual boot - OS X & Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
New to the list, and i was wondering if anyone has had any sucess with a dual boot of OS X and Debian. It depends... If you have a newworld machine that can use yaboot, its quite easy to set up dual boot or even triple boot (OS9/OSX/Linux), see http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/doc/yaboot

Re: dual boot - OS X & Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Janne Karjanlahti
Jonathan wheeler kirjoittaa lauantaina, 20. huhtikuuta 2002, kello 08:40:Hello,   >New to the list, and i was wondering if anyone has had any sucess with a dual boot of OS X and Debian. >Everyone i have talked to say they have tons of trouble with open firmware. I've looked around

dual boot - OS X & Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Jonathan wheeler
Hello,   New to the list, and i was wondering if anyone has had any sucess with a dual boot of OS X and Debian. Everyone i have talked to say they have tons of trouble with open firmware. I've looked around on the net, and i can't seem to find anything about it either :( maybe

Re: can't dual boot

2002-03-17 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 11:13:00PM -0500, Russell Hires wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hmmm...exact symptoms. Well, we have OS 8.6, which I had prepartitioned and > installed potato on, but I was using BootX to do the booting. It's a Rev A or > B iMac, I'll have to

Re: can't dual boot

2002-03-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 09:25:11AM -0500, Russell Hires wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Actually, I figured it out. I had to use Apple's Drive Setup from OS 9.2 to > update the disk driver, and then it now dual boots. The CD I was > trying to boot from was OS 8.6, w

Re: can't dual boot

2002-03-16 Thread Russell Hires
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Actually, I figured it out. I had to use Apple's Drive Setup from OS 9.2 to update the disk driver, and then it now dual boots. The CD I was trying to boot from was OS 8.6, which is what the Mac OS is on the hard drive. But the tech coordinator at

Re: can't dual boot

2002-03-15 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:04:31PM -0500, Russell Hires wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello all, > > I've just gotten woody installed, and I boot fine into Linux using yaboot, > but when I try to boot into the MacOS, I can't. I've got an iMac 333 mhz. > Actually,

can't dual boot

2002-03-14 Thread Russell Hires
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I've just gotten woody installed, and I boot fine into Linux using yaboot, but when I try to boot into the MacOS, I can't. I've got an iMac 333 mhz. Actually, when I get into the MacOS, I get the happy face, then the grey screen with the

Re: compile airport, dual boot

2000-10-24 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I wondered what had happened. I'm seeing the same thing. I've > tried from several networks: > > > bash-2.03$ nslookup www.linuxppc.org > Server: dns1.gallup.com > Address: 198.175.140.220 > > Non-authoritative answer: > Name:www.linuxppc.org > Address: 169.207.161.4 > > bash-2.03$ n

Re: compile airport, dual boot

2000-10-24 Thread pohl
> > btw: www.linuxppc.org evaluates to www.linuxppc.com > > Not for me. You probably have a caching nameserver somewhere > that needs to be kicked real hard. The problem traces back to > a botched zone data change for linuxppc.org that had a lot of > name servers confused. But that's been months

Re: compile airport, dual boot

2000-10-24 Thread Michael Schmitz
> btw: www.linuxppc.org evaluates to www.linuxppc.com and linuxppc.org > seems a bit outdated, since the link to the FAQ-O-Matic is broken. Is > there anything under way? Not for me. You probably have a caching nameserver somewhere that needs to be kicked real hard. The problem traces back to a bo

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