Re: Adventures multi-booting late 2003 iBook G3 (was: What is this Apple Bootstrap thing of which the installer speaks?)
- From: Joel Rees <joel.rees@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 01:28:51 +0900
I blogged about this a couple of years back. (Fedora, rather than
Debian.) You may have discovered this all the hard way by now, but
I'll post the link anyway:
http://reiisi.blogspot.com/2009/05/fedora-on-old-clamshell-ibook.html
I think the only thing the blog really adds is that you can probably
get around the Mac OS 9 partition being walked on by something like
the following:
After your fresh install of Mac OS 9, make sure it's updated as far as
you want the Mac OS 9 system updated, and make sure there's a copy of
the Apple Hard Disk utility on the Mac OS 9 partition.
iBooks with Firewire can boot from an external drive. After a certain
model number (check Apple's hardware pages) hey can boot from USB as
well as Firewire. So you can make a copy of your booting Mac OS 9
partition (with Apple's disk imaging utility, or, even by
drag-and-drop copying, usually) and boot from an external drive in
some cases.
If that doesn't work for you, you should still be able to copy the
partition and burn a CD-R (but not CD-RW) from the copy, and end up
with a bootable CD from which to run Apple's HD Utilitiy.
(Ergo, to get you out of the bind when Debian's installer walks on the
Mac OS 9 partiions.)
(I did file a bug on this in Fedora's Bugzilla, but they couldn't get
the hardware and the spare personnel with the technical expertise all
together long enough to fix it, I think. Wish I had the time to look
at it myself.)
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 4:10 AM, <annathemermaid@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Wed, 18 May 2011 17:23:26 +0000 annathemermaid@xxxxxxxx wrote:
On Thu, 05 May 2011 18:14:43 +0000 Roger Leigh
<rleigh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Now that Debian is up and running, is there documentationsomewhere
explaining how to make yaboot offer options to boot OpenBSDand/or
NetBSD?
It should be possible, but AFAIK it's currently broken:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=372780
Looks like it's simple to fix, but there wasn't anyone who could
test it properly.
Regards,
Roger
I've been having a more serious issue with yaboot: it seems to
wreck the Mac Os Classic disk drivers so Mac OS 9.2.2 can't boot
anymore. Instead, it just shows this sort of flashing flopping
image. Apparently, the usual workaround is to boot into the
Classic
install CD and select the Update Drivers function from the Disk
Setup. Unfortunately, since I have a late 2003 model that barely
supports booting into Classic, the installation program is only
capable of running from withing OS X's Classic Mode; it doesn't
work when booted directly off the CD. The Tiger and Panther
installation disks only seem to be capable of installing the
drivers when partitioning the disk from scratch; they don't know
how to fix the drivers without wiping the disk. So, no Update
Drivers for me. The problem does not occur if Debian is installed
without the yaboot Apple_Bootstrap partition, but then, of course,
there's no way to boot Debian. Creating the Apple_Bootstrap
partition with OpenBSD's pdisk rather than Debian's mac-fdisk
doesn't help either, so I think the problem must occur when yaboot
actually installs itself onto the Apple_Bootstrap partition.
Wiping
the disk and installing Mac OS X / Mac OS 9.2.2 from scratch will
resolve the issue, but then of course it will break again when I
install Debian again.
I notice that the bug report is rather recent, being filed against
squeeze.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=604134
I wonder if it would work properly if wiped the disk, and tried
again, but this time used squeeze with lenny's yaboot.
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