Installing to a G3 in target mode via a G5 - success (sort of)

H. Apfel linux at apfel-edv.de
Thu Mar 23 11:41:01 MST 2006


Well, first I started by installing YDL from a G4 iBook instead of a 
G5 tower - finally figuring out that a 64 Bit system might be a bit 
incompatible with a 32 bit CPU.

However I still had to use the G3 in target mode at this point as it 
wouldn't boot into YDL. So YDL still ran on the G4.

The problem was that the yaboot.conf file was set to a firewire 
device as boot device, so changing all the device references within 
the conf file and writing it back with ybin -d sda2 eventually did 
the trick.

Greetings

H. Apfel


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