Subject: RE: Re: yaboot similar to lilo?
From: Ruprecht, Chris (cruprech@compucom.com)
Date: Fri Aug 24 2001 - 15:20:39 MDT
Hi Renaud,
That why I put the '=>' (meaning 'relates to') there and not just '='
(meaning 'is equal to') into the message :-).
They are not the same file type, the context is distinctively different
...
Best regards,
Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Renaud Muller [mailto:renaud.muller@wanadoo.fr]
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 9:28 PM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: yaboot similar to lilo?
>
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> It seems that gramatics of yaboot is a bit different from lilo:
> # ybin options
> boot = /dev/hda10
> macos=/dev/hda
> magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
> default =macos
> enablecdboot
>
> #yaboot options
> init-message=
> timout=50
> default=linux
> partition=11
>
> # yaboot images
> image=/boot/vmlinux
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda11
>
> image=/boot/vmlinux <====== for emergency?
> label=linux-novideo
> root=/dev/hda11
> novideo
>
> I notice there is no image for macos like image=/boot/macos
> with root =
> /dev/hda9 in "#yaboot images". I suppose that I only have to
> change something
> in #yaboot options and nothing in #yaboot images? What
> exactly is needed so
> that linux is default and macos is still loadable? Can you
> correct the lines
> so it matches what is necessary? Sorry to ask for that but I
> donot want to
> lose everything!
>
>
> Le Vendredi 24 Août 2001 11:42, vous avez écrit :
> > Hi Renaud,
> >
> > lilo.conf => yaboot.conf
> > lilo => ybin
> >
> > :) - as easy as that ...
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Chris
>
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