RE: Mac mini and pc keyboard

["Truong, Phu" <Phu.Truong@windriver.com>]

My suggestion is getting a mac keyboard to save you time, then you can
boot into open firmware with mac keyboard with 

    Alt + Option + o + f

Phu

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Shilishper [mailto:debian@june31.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 5:42 PM
>To: yaboot-users@lists.penguinppc.org
>Subject: Mac mini and pc keyboard
>
>
>Hi,
>I recently installed sarge on my mac mini and noticed, after I 
>compiled and installed a new kernel (and screwed up at that), 
>that yaboot doesn't see my logitech itouch keyboard. Neither 
>the first stage, no the second, no openfirmware after both of 
>them. I had to borrow a genuine mac keyabord to to enter boot 
>label for the original kernel. I am not sure that it is a 
>correct place to ask, but who knows better about the mac boot 
>process than yaboot developers? Is this problem something 
>yaboot related or it is a common mac problem? But how then did 
>macos let me boot from cd to install linux? I pressed 'c' key 
>on the pc keyboard and it was understood.  I just need to know 
>if i have to buy a mac keyboard, since it is not the last time 
>i screwed up, and overall, it is inconvinient to edit 
>yaboot.conf every time i need to boot a different kernel.
>Thanks
>---
>    Roma
>
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