Is Ubuntu giving up on the PPC platform?

[Eric Dunbar]

Me tonight articulate.

On 2/12/06, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > "default=macosx" is not what you included. That is why I was asking,
> > > as OF totally freaked, as per my last e-mail.
>
> PS Just a few comments (from an amateur with but an amateur's
> understanding of OF) about Open Firmware...
>
> You can reset the PRAM on your computer by holding down
> command-option-P-R while the computer goes "bong". Keep holding those
> keys until it goes "bong" again.

"bong" = the sound when you restart/power up.

> That's when keeping your Linux on the first partition comes in handy
> -- all you have to do to regain yaboot is to reset the PRAM
> (command-option-P-R) since it'll be the lowest bootable partition.
> But, if you're handy with the Linux boot/installer CD it doesn't
> matter since all you have to do is boot into Linux and run your yaboot
> -v (is that what you do?... RTM).

sudo ybin -v (?), not sudo yaboot -v!