From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.gna.ch (darkcity.gna.ch [195.226.6.51]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D95BDB7C7E for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:37:37 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: Booting headless PowerMac G5 From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= To: Romain Goyet In-Reply-To: <8028e5751003240332h3f13c2d5w941dda44b4740d7@mail.gmail.com> References: <8028e5751003240332h3f13c2d5w941dda44b4740d7@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:29:01 +0100 Message-ID: <1269509341.441.2779.camel@thor.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 11:32 +0100, Romain Goyet wrote:=20 >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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=E2=80=A6 >=20 > 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 >=20 > And here you go, you can unplug that useless monitor :-) >=20 > 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... --=20 Earthling Michel D=C3=A4nzer | http://www.vmware.c= om Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer