Hello, I'm new to this group and to the ppc/apple hardware. With Debian I have experiences for several years ... on the i386 platform.
In Mid-May I bought a G4 Cube. In general: it is the the 'new' (for me) hardware I have difficulties with. After some fiddling with MacOS and MacOSX on my Cube I decided to put 'my' beloved Debian additionally on the HDD. This decision resulted in a three-system boot configuration, booting Debian as default :-) With the G4 Cube having a so-called NewWorld PowerMac, I achieved the multi-booting by a Apple_Bootstrap partition activated by ybin and /etc/yaboot.conf. A nice thing I found by access was booting with the 'Option' key which also in a kind of GUI showed a Linux(penguin) boot icon choosable by mouse (plus a bootable CD if inserted). All this is lost now! For I did the newest "recommended" 'G4 Cube FWUpdate' version 4.1.8 I did it having tested the additional RAM before. I had not thought of it damaging completely the boot configuration, even the boot GUI apple-feature. The new situation: 1) Booting into OpenFirmware now still shows the linux entry but it doesn't boot Debian any more. 2) Booting with the 'Option' key pressed now flickers up the boot 'GUI' for a short moment. In it only the boot volume choosed in one of the MacOSes can be seen. Then I get an OpenFirmware prompt. There I only see the possibility typing 'boot mac-os' to get a system. 3) Additionaly now I haven't any possibility to boot from a CD. Neither pressing 'c' nor with the Option key. What can I do get a boot status similar to that before the RomUpdate? Thanks a lot for hints. Karl-Heinz
