Ethan wrote: > you never got it to work? i really think this has to be some > difference in some G4's OpenFirmware... though i think Ben has > G4 and has yaboot working...
I guess there is a lot of hardware (and probably firmware) variance even within the set of machines that go by the "G4" label. My machine was purchased after Apple bumped the CPU clockspeed back up to their original values. I've found several references to people getting pre-speedbump G4s going with yaboot, but nobody has reported success specifically with a post-speedbump G4 -- so far as I've seen. > did you ever try a debug build of yaboot? Not yet. My pace of experimenting with it is very slow since I'm in the middle of upgrading from one house to another. The ppclinux 2000 CD uses yaboot_0.5, and it seems to work fine on my machine. I'm curious as to why it can find its configuration file in this case -- perhaps because there's only one partition on the CD? The Open Firmware reports a build date of somewhere in late January of this year on my machine. I'm not in front of the machine right now so I can't be more specific than that. What date does yours report?
