Subject: Re: HELP!!! Can't boot!
From: Jeff Galyan (talisman@anamorphic.com)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2001 - 23:09:25 MST
ultra1 is my secondary IDE HD (/dev/hdb). And Cmd-Opt-O-F combo didn't do
anything - the box just booted right into Mac OS X. I tried just Opt, but
that only shows me Mac OS X (doesn't show Mac OS 9, which it seems like it
should, since both are installed). According to OF, I have hd (/dev/hda),
ultra1 (/dev/hdb) and cd (/dev/hdc -- cdrw). No other drives show up in the
device tree (though Mac OS has no problem finding the third HD and tries to
mount it, then complains that it can't read the disk).
I'm starting to remember why I stopped using Linux (after eight years) in
the first place...
Thanks anyway! :)
--Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Story" <rstory-l@revelstone.com>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Cc: <talisman@anamorphic.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: HELP!!! Can't boot!
> 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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