Subject: Re: who knows OF syntax?
From: Keary Suska (hierophant@pcisys.net)
Date: Wed Dec 19 2001 - 19:51:13 MST
Note: If you install OS X *after* you partitioned for Linux, it is possible
that OS X added a partition or two and changed the numbering. Something you
may need to be aware of. Apple has excellent documentation on using OF and
Forth in their developer section, although I don't recall the url exactly.
There is a command to list devices, I don't recall whether you can get that
through printenv or something else. Once you get that list, your boot
partition should be the third from the last, providing you partitioned as
recommended (/boot, /swap, /root, respectively).
Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"
> From: jennix <jennix@jennix.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 18:29:03 -0800
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: who knows OF syntax?
>
> hi,
>
> ok, so perhaps i'm not as think as i smart i am, but even though i'm pretty
> sure it's on part 15, i tried everything from 1-16... OF either throws me a
> "MAC-PART: SPECIFIED PARTITION IS NOT VALID..." or "can't OPEN..."
>
> suggestions are welcome, as are good resources for OF syntax for things
> like, oh i dunno... a darn partition map or something? maybe a Darwin
> partitioning program that isn't infected with the macintosh-see-no-evil
> disease? or, heaven forbid, a way to mount other partitions from Darwin?
>
> jeez, and i thought i hated intel-based hardware....
>
> peace,
> jennifer
>
> At 11:45 AM 12/19/2001, Tim ODriscoll wrote:
>
>> I find that when MacOS plays around with the boot partition, booting into
>> OF and typing;
>> boot hd:2,,yaboot
>>
>> Does the trick. That's assuming that ybin has made yaboot at home on
>> /dev/hda2.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, jennix wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Y'all,
>>>
>>> thanks, but my YD cd is 2000 miles away... any other suggestions?
>>>
>>> peace,
>>> jennifer
>>>
>>> At 10:58 AM 12/19/2001, Gotse Grosdanof wrote:
>>>> Just boot from YDL CD and hit TAB at boot prompt, then Type "cd-linux
>>>> root=/dev/hdb12" (without the quotes-and hdb12 is just an example,
>> just make
>>>> sure it is your root partion) then after linux boots, login and open a
>>>> terminal and run "/usr/sbin/ybin"
>>>> (without the qoutes) and then try rebooting computer and see if bootloader
>>>> runs...it should!
>>>>
>>>> jennix wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear Geeks,
>>>>>
>>>>> I installed 10.1 and 9.22 on my box and it fubar'd my carefully
>> constructed
>>>>> ybin boot so that even if i get to my ybin/OF menu using the "option"
>>>>> key i cannot boot to linux. It just tosses me back to a messed up
>> looking
>>>>> "blus window with my 9.ss, 10.1 and YD options again...
>>>>>
>>>>> can anyone tell me the correct syntax to type at the "Boot:" prompt
>> to get
>>>>> back to my linux system?
>>>>>
>>>>> peace,
>>>>> jennifer
>>>
>
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