Fwd: More Mandrake ppc

[Timothy Domst]

If you had an open firmware password that would screw things up.  Maybe 
the disk isn't formatted with OS9 drivers, and yaboot uses an OS9 
bootstrap loader.

On Nov 24, 2004, at 12:35 PM, ebenoit at hopevale.com wrote:

>
> Hello all,
> After succesfully installing Mandrake 9.1 ppc on an Xserver G4, 
> Mandrake 10.1
> came out, so having a good experience with 9.1 I decided to run with 
> my luck and
> upgrade this computer with a larger hard drive and a newer OS 
> ...Mandrake 10.1
> ppc.  Instead of SCSI drive decided to go with an inexpensive IDE 
> drive.
>
> I have tripped.
>
> I have gone through the same proceedures as 9.1 to install 10.1, all I 
> get is a
> screen saying "booting mandrakelinux ppc..." and seems to be in some 
> kind of
> loop ...the screen will dim out and then go right back to the same 
> message.  I
> have looked up using open firmware to boot to the yaboot partition on 
> the cd
> with the following command "boot cd:,\boot\yaboot" that fails with 
> error:
> "MAC-PARTS: can't find a default partition can't OPEN: 
> cd:,\boot\yaboot"
>
> If I were Yoda I would feel as the force was telling me it had 
> something to with
> an open firmware configuration, and that is what it has come to 
> ...spiritual
> instead of actual, because I can find no documentation anywhere to 
> help out
> ..may the source be with you. LOL <--I would actually think this was 
> funny if I
> had some flying bison aviator red right now.
>
> Happy ThanksGiving to everyone have a safe holiday,
> Eric
>
>
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