Hi all, It seems I've messed up yaboot on a G5 running debian. anyone know how I get the cdrom door open to boot from cdrom? I'm using a standard PC usb keyboard. Cheers, Erik -- -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > It seems I've messed up yaboot on a G5 running debian. anyone know how > I get the cdrom door open to boot from cdrom? I'm using a standard PC > usb keyboard. Ah, got it. The little aluminium door can be physically slid down to expose the cdrom drive and then a paper clip can be inserted in the hole to force the door open. Now to make this machine boot properly again. Erik -- -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/
2012/2/5, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+debian <at> mega-nerd.com>: > Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > >> It seems I've messed up yaboot on a G5 running debian. anyone know how >> I get the cdrom door open to boot from cdrom? I'm using a standard PC >> usb keyboard. > > Ah, got it. > > The little aluminium door can be physically slid down to expose the cdrom > drive and then a paper clip can be inserted in the hole to force the > door open. > Or you could boot into Open Firmware (Cmd-Opt-O-F) and type 'eject cd'. And then boot with 'boot cd:,\\:tbxi'. Risto
5 feb 2012 kl. 07.06 skrev Erik de Castro Lopo: > It seems I've messed up yaboot on a G5 running debian. anyone know how > I get the cdrom door open to boot from cdrom? I'm using a standard PC > usb keyboard. I'm not sure if holding the mouse button down during upstart works without OS X, but that is the simplest I think. /MiB
On 5 Feb 2012, at 09:44, MiB wrote: > > 5 feb 2012 kl. 07.06 skrev Erik de Castro Lopo: > >> It seems I've messed up yaboot on a G5 running debian. anyone know how >> I get the cdrom door open to boot from cdrom? I'm using a standard PC >> usb keyboard. > > I'm not sure if holding the mouse button down during upstart works without OS X, but that is the simplest I think. The hold-mouse-to-eject-all feature is a firmware feature that's been part of the Mac since way-back. It used to be the defacto way to eject a floppy disk that wouldn't eject at the desktop :) I am pretty sure it works on all PowerPC machines, regardless of the OS. -- -- Mark Benson http://DECtec.info Twitter: @DECtecInfo HECnet: STAR69::MARK Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts.
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