On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:27:40PM -0600, Mark K. Gardner wrote: [snip] > 6) When prompted to set up booting from the hard disk, I escape to a > shell and install yaboot: > > mkofboot --boot /dev/hda9 -m /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot --root \ > /dev/hda11 --partition 11 > > 7) Finally I reboot expecting to finish the Debian install. Instead > MacOS boots.
Because the nvram didn't get changed. Here's what _should_ work: Boot the debian install CD, but tell it root=/dev/hda11, so that it runs your install not the installer (or it _should_, I haven't used the CDs). After doing the normal configure/setup stuff, apt-get install yaboot, so you have yaboot/ybin, then configure /etc/yaboot.conf so that it has the bootstrap as hd:9 and root is hda11 (or so, this is from memory..) Also uncomment the nonvram bit and oh yeah, apt-get install powerpc-utils, so you'll have a good nvsetenv/et al, and run ybin. Then reboot and you should be able to go into linux. Since you said you had linux/os9.1/osx going before I'm assuming you've configured ybin/yaboot before. :) Something akin to all of this worked on my G4/466 a while back... -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
