yaboot depends entirely upon OF for input and output devices, so if your keyboard does not work with OF then it won't work with yaboot either. that said you should still be able to use any USB keyboard with OF, though you will have to have a 104 key model if you want to break the boot process into OF itself (typical PC keyboard this is Alt-windows-O-F). I know this works on at least the older models, perhaps apple proprietarized things in more current machines. are you using a PS2 to USB adapter? if so that could potentially be the problem. Also be sure the keyboard was attached when the machine was powered on, OF is unlikely to fully support hotplug. You might also try a different keyboard, unfortunatly most keyboards are of very low quality these days, its quite possible the USB circuitry is poor and non-spec. Apple hardware has a tendency to be less tolerant of broken hardware then typical PeeCees. On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 08:41:37PM -0500, Shilishper wrote: > > 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 > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to minimalist@lists.penguinppc.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe yaboot-users". Trouble? Contact > listmaster@lists.penguinppc.org -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
Attachment:
pgp00000.pgp
Description: PGP signature