On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 11:32 +0100, Romain Goyet wrote: > > Here's a summary about "how to boot a PowerMac G5 without a screen > attached". As many people have noticed, default yaboot install won't > boot unless a screen is attached. > > Actually, the workaround is really simple. Thing is, that's the > "ofboot.b" script that messes things up. This script is a "bridge", > that actually either starts yaboot or let you boot off of a CD. I > don't know what's the point, since OpenFirmware already lets you boot > off of the CD by pressing C on boot… > > So basically, to boot headless, all you have to do is to tell > OpenFirmware to boot straight off the yaboot binary, and to skip the > ofboot.b > Just boot into OpenFirmware (Command-Option-O-F), and type : > setenv boot-device hd:2,yaboot (where 2 is the number of the partition > containing yaboot) > boot > > And here you go, you can unplug that useless monitor :-) > > References : > http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/blog/archive/2005/02/THE_WINE_OF_BOOT.html > http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnPowerPC
That's good to know, thanks. > By the way, as of writing this, grub2 on PPC from debian gives a "out > of memory" issue. Known bug. That's on the G5? It's working on my PowerBook, but I haven't updated the grub2 binaries on the bootstrap partition in a while... -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
