Subject: Re: Linux on Expansion Bay Drive
From: Black (cpa@ece.cmu.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 07 2000 - 15:39:20 MDT
I would appear to be wrong here. I just found the yaboot faq :
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ybin/doc/yaboot-faq.html
It doesn't say anything explicitly about an expansion bay hard drive, but
you can probably try some of the methods he gives for a SCSI hard drive to
come up with something that works...
-Christopher Andrews
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Black wrote:
> I have an old enough Powerbook that I can use BootX instead of yaboot to
> drop into linux. However, it is indeed likely that hd:9 will not work for
> you since it is a different drive. For me, the device that I got for my
> expansion bay was hde, so for partition 9 that would be hde:9. however, my
> main drive was hda. Like I said, I've never used yaboot. Someone who has
> might like to say something. However, that will be the same for whether
> you use the CD or not, you are just starting up the ramdisk that is on the
> bootstrap partition for the install anyways...
>
> -Christopher Andrews
>
> On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Adam Oliner wrote:
>
> > I have tried following the intructions at
> > http://www.modctek.com/linux_report.htm but at the Open Firmware
> > prompt it can't find the Bootstrap partition of my bay drive. It
> > isn't hd:9, even though that's the first partition of the bay drive.
> > Do I start numbering differently because it's not my internal drive?
> >
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