Subject: Re: HELP!!! Can't boot!
From: Robert Story (rstory-l@revelstone.com)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2001 - 22:44:24 MST
Hold down <cmd><opt><o><f> after turning on your mac and you should drop
into open firmware. then type devalias and see if you can pick out a few
candidates.
for example, on my B&W G3, I have ide0, cd, zip, ide1, hd, ultra0 and ultra1.
I'm guessing you'll end up with something like ultra1...
Then try booting from these images from the ybin prompt. For example to
boot from the partition 10 of the ultra1 drive,
ultra1:10,/vmlinux
Once you've found one that works, update /etc/yaboot.conf and re-run ybin.
At 8:50 PM -0700 12/18/01, Jeff Galyan wrote:
>After fighting with YDL 2.0 install (and getting kernel panics before it
>even enumerated devices), I've gotten YDL 2.1 to install on my G4/466 AGP
>box. Unfortunately, it won't boot. I can boot it using cd-linux
>root=/dev/hdd9, but that's a bit of a pain to have to do *every* time I
>boot the machine.
>
>So, I followed the directions in the Engineers' Notes at the end of the
>install guide, and ybin projectile-vomits with a message about "/dev/hdd
>is not supported" and "Unable to find OpenFirmware path for
>boot=/dev/hdd10" and fails to write the bootloader stuff. Now, before
>anyone suggests repartitioning my other hard drives, understand that
>repartitioning my other two drives *is not an option*. Booting from a
>third HD should be fine, since it works on *every* other platform Linux
>runs on.
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