Yaboot on a Powermac G4

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Tue Jun 13 07:54:42 EST 2006


On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 01:33 -0700, tommywds wrote:
> Hi guys
> 
> I hope someone can help me out here because I'm having a few problems.
> 
> I have just installed Fedora Core 5 on my Powermac G4. I don't have a Mac OS
> on there so it's just Fedora. Install went fine and Fedora boots up
> perfectly. However if I preform a reboot either from the GUI or the command
> line I get a flashing questionmark. Which as I'm sure you know is the Mac
> failing to find an OS. But if I preform a shutdown and then power the Mac
> back on it boots fine.

That seems odd, when it's booted can you grab /etc/yaboot.conf and a
tarball of /proc/device-tree for me to look at and put them on a
webserver somewhere.

Paul





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