Quoting Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 02:19:39PM +0200, Hadess wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've just done the (final) installation on my iBook Firewire. Ended up > producing > > the attached document. Here comes a few questions: > > > > Note: I use an iMac DV (3rd generation) and an iBook Firewire SE. > > > > 1. yaboot doesn't show up, I mean that I've got to get in the Open > Firmware to > > get a display and then type boot, otherwise the screen stays black and > then I > > get the "BootX early console", followed by the kernel boot. Is that > normal (and > > yes, I raised the delay to 200 tenth seconds). Happens on both > computers. > > I have been getting some reports of display problems with ybin's > bootscript (the new one) one some machines, and trying to find a way > to solve it. i am not entirely sure how yaboot writes things to the > screen, but i would be interested to see if ybin 0.26's bootscript > (when configured to display a menu) works on your machine. > unfortunatly its not packaged (0.23 is using very different Forth > code) the current script writes text directly into the framebuffer > rather then with the OF console output (which does not work AFAICT) > > would you test this?
Well, if that doesn't screw up my install completely, yes, I'll give it a try. > one other simple test you could try is adding: > > install-console Will try that as well > to your current /etc/ofboot.b, right after the <BOOT-SCRIPT> tag. > rerun ybin and see if you can see yaboot then. it appears that with > some newer macs the mac-boot OF command is disabling the terminal, > this can result in not being able to type text or write things to the > screen. i am trying to find a solution to this, install-console does > not entirely fix it on my machine. (my machine does not have too > crippled of a terminal though) > > i am getting VERY tempted to disable the mac-boot command altogether > but 1) that is not a great solution and 2) it still may not solve all > the problems. > > > 2. Is there any way to pass arguments to the kernel using yaboot, like > LILO > > does. (for example, typing "Linux novideo" would have saved me a > re-install). > > yes yaboot has a boot prompt that works nearly the same as LILO. but > you kind of have to see it ;-) I got to see it entering OF first. But typing "Linux novideo", Linux being the name of the option didn't work... at all. Or should I use another syntax. > > 3. Are the netscape issues raised a couple of months ago gone ? > (Netscape > > freezing on start-up, etc.) > > no that is standard Netscape behavior. Yeah, I know that Netscape is crap, but I have to load it up to move all my e-mails to some more conventional mbox style files. And on Linux/PPC, AFAIK it at least got to the point where you could show a page... So, is *that* solved ? If I can get a Microsoft-esque kind of stability, I'd sign. Thanks for your time /Hadess http://hadess.net
