Hi Emile,
Did you repartition your disk ? Yaboot needs a special configuration in
order to boot and it can't be done on the normal partition scheme that
is left when you had OSX installed. See the info in fdisk and cfdisk
and yaboot for it.
I did it once and as far as I remember, you must start with an empty
partition table, then add the first sectors for yaboot, then add a
second root partition (small one) and then add the rest. After that,
yaboot works without any problems. Did this with Debian Sarge about 2
months ago.
Yves
Emile Schwarz wrote:
Hi all,
"I’ve Got A Feeling *"... about the place people install their Linux
distribution:
a. on the internal hard disk (the volume the computer boot from)
b. on another hard disk (either a second internal hard disk or an
external hard disk)...
On Macintosh, people said that an USB volume cannot be used to boot.
So I tried a FireWire WD for my testings. I know, because I installed
Tiger 10.4.5 on a different external FireWire hard disk, that this is
possible to boot on an external FireWire hard disk. _BUT_ I do not
tested the USB-2 external hard disk boot on Linux connected to my
PowerBook.
Send your answers (a, b, other: explain) here,
Emile
PS: I tried - yesterday evening - to install Debian for PowerPC on my
PowerBook, but it failed to install what it calls "yaboot". I checked
earlier this afternoon both with Disk Utility (on Mac OS X) and after
a boot on the generated CD from the downloaded ISO file, I used the
integrated function: both told me that the generated CD is good (no
error found). That is why I suspect the only thing I didn't do:
install the Linux distro in the (Mac OS X or Windows XP) boot hard
disk, the option a, see far above.
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