Is Ubuntu giving up on the PPC platform?

[Brian Durant]

On 12. feb 2006, at 19.13, Eric Dunbar wrote:

> On 2/12/06, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2/12/06, Brian Durant <RoadTripDK at myrealbox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Unfortunately, I haven't figured out how to get yaboot to boot
>>> default into OS X yet. I tried "default=macosx", but no luck.
>>>
>>> With regards to the kernel issue, I see two possibilities as I
>>> believe we have talked about before:
>>
>> Brian, IIRC that's exactly what you're supposed to do to get yaboot
>> booting to Mac OS X automagically.
>>
>> Most redundant question in the world (since you already posted that
>> you used sudo ybin -v)...
>>
>> Did you run sudo ybin -v after updating your yaboot.conf file with  
>> the line:
>> default=macosx
>> (no quotes)?
>
> FYI. This is my current yaboot.conf file:
>
> ## yaboot.conf generated by the Ubuntu installer
> ##
> ## run: "man yaboot.conf" for details. Do not make changes until  
> you have!!
> ## see also: /usr/share/doc/yaboot/examples for example  
> configurations.
> ##
> ## For a dual-boot menu, add one or more of:
> ## bsd=/dev/hdaX, macos=/dev/hdaY, macosx=/dev/hdaZ
>
> boot=/dev/hda2
> device=/pci at f4000000/ata-6 at d/disk at 0:
> partition=3
> root=/dev/hda3
> timeout=100
> install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
> magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
> enablecdboot
> macosx=/dev/hda5
> defaultos=macosx

"default=macosx" is not what you included. That is why I was asking,  
as OF totally freaked, as per my last e-mail.

> image=/boot/vmlinux
>         label=Linux
>         read-only
>         initrd=/boot/initrd.img
>         append="quiet splash"
>
> image=/boot/vmlinux.old
>         label=old
>         read-only
>         initrd=/boot/initrd.img.old
>         append="quiet splash"

Brian