[Clfs-support] ppc64 recovery, and yaboot ?

[William Harrington]

> On Sep 23, 2013, at 22:22, Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 
> 1. Any recommendations for a rescue CD to chroot to the old system ?
> I suppose that means I'll need to find my old mac keyboard to be
> able to open the CD drive.  #$^@"* this for a game of skittles :-(

Probably any recent PowerPC64 distro with a lived. I mostly use Debian these days.

> 
> 2. Any ideas what I've done wrong in compiling/installing yaboot ?

I haven't thoroughly tested yaboot. In fact well need a patch to use parted instead of macfdisk. It's not much work. Something I'll finish soon.

Sincerely,

William Harrington