PPC linux installation

[Steven Hanley]

On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 04:19:53PM +1000, Tomasz Ciolek wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Does anyone know a _good_ howto on installing PPC linux (debian PPC to be precise) onto an IMac or a powerbook or any other "New World" mac? Specifically, how does one get the beats to dual boot cleanly and without much fuss, ala lilo dual boot type prompt...
> 

you need to have the (type/name) Apple_Bootstrap/bootstrap partition first of
the possible partitions on the driver, before the linux or macos
partitions. (you can re order the partitions with mac-fdisk) 

then simply use the yaboot.conf correctly 

on my laptop (firewire powerbook, or pismo) I have the Apple_Bootstrap
partition as hda9, my / on hda10 and a macos partition (which I notice I never
use, but hey) on hda18 

so yaboot.conf has this in it

boot=/dev/hda9
device=hd:
delay=10
timeout=20
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
default=Linux
root=/dev/hda10
partition=10
read-only
append="devfs=nomount"
image=/boot/vmlinux-2.4.6
        label=Linux
enablecdboot
macos=/dev/hda18

works fine, have a look around penguinppc.org, also ethan benson has all the
docs on yaboot and mac-fdisk somewhere there, or on his home page,
penguinppc.org/~eb should help.

I am typing this from the above mentioned powerbook with debian installed,
works great.

        See You
            Steve

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