Alexander Baldeck
2011-06-16

Trouble with unbootable G5 systems


Hey everyone,

apparently a broken version of powerpc-utils (1.2.9) slipped in before we found that during yaboot's installation it may break yaboot on G5 systems. So far we have no reports of 32bit systems being affected as well.

So, if you are left with an unbootable install boot from the installer and downgrade powerpc-utils to 1.2.6 via a `pacman -Sy powerpc-utils` from [core] and run `ybin` as root.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

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