Having trouble with new G4

[Colin Ward]

> Please, somebody help me get this resolved.
> I'm not exactly a Mac Wiz but I am a huge fan of linux.
> Got the mac because it was the most reliable hardware I could find.
> I need to know what I need to disable or get by in order for yaboot to
> take control during startup. The CD does not boot at all.. goes straight
> to OSX.
> Machine is 1GHZ G4.  Jan 2003


>Ah...you might well have come up against the "new macs will not boot into
>OS9" problem.

>First you need to reformat your drive (I'm assuming you only want YDL?).
>You need to use the OSX installer CD.  Boot onto that (put CD in, reboot
>holding down C) - it'll welcome you to the installer, but ignore that and
>select Disk Utilty (or someething like that) from the menus and
>reformat/partition the drive.  For YDL it must be 'Unallocated' not Macos
>Extended or anything like that.  Then reboot and startup from the YDL CD by
>holding down option-apple-O-F immediatly on reboot, you should be brought
>to the Open Firmware screen.  Type:
>boot cd:,\\yaboot
>and press enter. You should startup from the YDL CD.  Follow the
>instructions on the YDL site for installing with yaboot.

>This certainly works for machines that *will* boot into OS9.  I have no
>idea how yaboot works, but if it still doesn't work on your machine it may
>be because of Apple's change to only OSX boot.

>Hope this helps
>Suzanne


First of all you need to change the hard disk over to the ATA66 bus, YDL
kernel does not support ATA100. Non of the above will work until you do
this. You should then be able to have OSX and YDL on the same HD. Make sure
you put YDL at the beginning/front of the HD.
COlin