Hi Cive Menzies, Chris Tillman and others, THX for patience, replies and help :)
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 08:33:37PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (17/10/03 20:15), Georg Koss wrote: > > Hello Clive, > > > > THX for fast reply. > > > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 06:16:17PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > > > > Gratefully in advance and greetings from Austria > > > If you search the archive for the last month, I think you'll find quite > > > a lot on this: > > > > > > http://lists.debian.org/search.html > > > > I tried this with boot, openfirmware, panther, macosx, powerpc, but no > > success. Probably you can give me one more hint (e.g. the list I shall > > look for). > > > > > > > > HTH > > > > I'm afraid, not at the moment but thanks for your help & > > > > have a good day! > Hi Georg > > This is weird? I know that there was a lot on this because of the > OSX upgrade breaking the Debian boot. I kept one message from Wolfgang > Pfeiffer with the following subject just in case I had to refer back: > Re: Upgrade Mac OS X 10.2.8 stops 2.4.21-ben2 Damn' I missed that under a lot of mails because of my holydays ... > But I've just done a search on debian-powerpc and it comes up with no > results. hmm ... > Here's the text: > > Excerpt: > "Restart the computer and hold down the four keys > command + option + O + F. This puts you into OpenFirmware, which is a > kind of boot monitor. At the OpenFirmware prompt, type the following: > boot hd:9,yaboot > > The digit in this command may differ for your system; > see above. If you don't know the number of the partition you have set > aside from Debian, try other numbers." Did that but ... > But this time the booting kernel (yaboot etc.) is living on the Mac OS > X partition itself instead of the one created for Debian. ... my kernel died - and most astonishingly I'm not able to start the installer from cd with boot: cd:,yaboot In the last case the kernel starts and dies shortly after with the last message openpic: exit That's what I think is most crazy - am I wrong? > > There were a number of other posts from people suffering similar > problem. The thought police must have removed them ;) Or I dreamt it. If we have to choose I'd prefer the second ;) But back to earth -- Thank you both Clive Menzies and Chris Tillman very much for assistance. I've to stop now because I've to get up early tomorrow - be back on sunday - hopefully with success-message. THX & have a fabulous day -- M.f.G. Georg Koss mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
