Comment 20 for bug 8136

I spent a few more hours on this tonight just trying to work around the bug so
that others can install Ubuntu on the G5's 2nd disk. Reading the past comments,
I couldn't mount the newworld partition using 5.04 (mount errors) but I was able
to update it in two different ways: The hard way using cat, sed, proc, and ybin,
and the easy way: from within Tiger I did a mount -t /dev/disk1s3 /Volumes/<temp
dir>.

I'm currently using:

boot=/dev/sde2
device=/ht@0,f200000/pci@7/k2-sata-root@c/k2-sata@1/disk@0:
partition=5
root=/dev/sde3
timeout=100
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
enablecdboot
macosx=/dev/sdd9

...as suggest in the previous comments but I still have the same
problem......selecting linux fails.

Not that in the above example there are 5 zeros as opposed to 6. I tried 6 by
accident, didn't work, and put it back to the correct 5....and it still didn't work.

The other problem I've noticed is that ybin isn't updating nvram. I have to
hold the option key down to select the linux disk which then launches yaboot.