Subject: Re: having a VERY hard time booting-help!
From: Christopher Stockwell (drstockwell@home.com)
Date: Sun Aug 05 2001 - 19:33:02 MDT
Thank you for the reply Peter.
Well, I've re-installed, and done what you recommended.
Sorry, no boot. I am so frustrated, I've put several whole days into
this...
OK, It installs fine. But does not boot, not even from open firmware.
It's as if yaboot, ybin, etc. is not even ON the boot partition.
Is there a way to check this? and can you then edit yaboot.config?
Thanks for your time.
chris
on 8/4/01 5:02 AM, Peter Andersen at peterandersen@mac.com wrote:
> I have had some of the same problems.
> First of all, you can boot into linux via the CD. At yaboot you should press
> the TAB key and an option will let you boot linux with the kernel from the
> CD and the rest using your hard-drive.
> Presumably your machine is an "Open Firmware" model, meaning that you can
> hold down command+alt+o+f keys on startup which drops you into Open
> Firmware, a command line system, that allows you to set various preferences
> that are saved in NVram as far as I know.
> In Open Firmware, you can set and read environment variables using "setenv"
> and "printenv" commands. The variable you need to set is the "boot-device"
> variable.
> On my iMac, the following does the trick:
>
> To boot linux just once without changing startup disk:
> boot hd:10,\\ofboot.b
> OR
> boot hd:10,\\yaboot
>
> If you want the changes to be permanent:
> setenv boot-device hd:10,\\ofboot.b
> OR
> setenv boot-device hd:10,\\yaboot
>
> The first (ofboot.b) sends you into the Open Firmware menu described in the
> ofboot.b file on partition 10 (your boot-partition) of the harddrive. The
> second (yaboot) goes directly to the second stage yaboot described in the
> yaboot.conf file the same place. These files need to be configured correctly
> which can be done from the Mac OS (if it shows the boot-partition) or from
> the Linux terminal, booting from the CD. In Linux terminal you should "su
> root" and then use hmount, hcopy etc. to access the hfs-partition you need
> to work with.
>
> -Peter
>
>> From: Christopher Stockwell <drstockwell@home.com>
>> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>> Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 16:38:54 -0600
>> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
>> Subject: having a VERY hard time booting-help!
>>
>> Hi,
>> Well I can install YD 2.0, but CANNOT boot it. Or at least I haven't been
>> able to. Can someone help me?
>>
>> G4 400mhz, 384 megs ram, 17GB, 10GB, 57GB.
>>
>> the first drive ATA2 17GB is partitioned as follows:
>>
>> 2GB HFS with Mac OS 9.1...
>> hda10 is 10mb yellowdog boot (as per instructions)
>> hda11 is 256mb swap
>> hda12 is max(the rest of drive) linux
>>
>> YD 2.0 installs fine, and when I reboot...it goes straight into mac os...
>> IF I hold down option key, I get a picture of a drive (one with mac os on
>> it), nothing else, unless I leave the YD 2.0 cd in, whereas I also get a
>> picture of the CD.
>>
>> Any specific ideas?
>>
>> Thank you so much,
>> chris
>>
>
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