Subject: Re: Newbie Problem Booting into YDL ONLY
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 14 2000 - 12:28:02 MST
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, root wrote:
> Dual G4/500. 256MB/RAM. Installed YDL successfully, I have a MacOS
> partition I'd love to do away with. Is this possible?
Yes.
> Do I have to start over to dust the MacOS?
No.
> I'd like to reclaim the disk space, since I rarely boot into anything
> else anymore. Is there any way to do the same thing on a G3/300 iBook?
> I have installed YDL on the iBook already, but can't boot into it.
Ok, it's kind of hard to describe but really straightforward if you've
played with this stuff a lot: :)
You need an HFS or HFS+ boot partition for Open Firmware to boot from. I
would recommend HFS because you still can't write to an HFS+ drive from
Linux. It needs to be large enough to hold yaboot and yaboot.conf (iow
~1MB, more to allow room for growth).
Put yaboot and yaboot.conf there. Example image line:
image = hd:9,/boot/vmlinux
label = linux
Put a kernel in /boot/vmlinux (the example assumes on partition 9).
In OF, 'setenv boot-device hd:10,yaboot'. This assumes your boot partition
is #10. If it's the first partition, you can omit the 10 entirely.
Once you've done all this and gotten things booting, you can safely delete
the Mac OS partition(s).
The iBook and G4 should be identical wrt this procedure.
-Hollis
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