Subject: Re: iBook and YaBoot
From: Keith Walter (keith@negs.net)
Date: Tue Feb 20 2001 - 15:33:00 MST
In article <B6B74050.7CE%slycer9@mac.com>, Brent Cantrell wrote:
> on 2/19/01 8:59 PM, Keith Walter at keith@negs.net wrote:
>
> > In article <B6B628FE.781%slycer9@mac.com>, Brent Cantrell wrote:
> >> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 01:35:59 +0000
> >> From: Brent Cantrell <slycer9@mac.com>
> >> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
> >> Subject: iBook and YaBoot
> >>
> >> I know everyone's sick of hearing this, but here goes,
> >>
> >> I can't get YaBoot configured for an original iBook. I've looked on the
> >> archives, looked on the web, and can't find instructions pertaining to very
> >> basic configuration. I'm pretty much a newbie, got suse, and YDL up and
> >> running, but can't seem to for Q4. The most I've been able to do is have a
> >> continuous boot loop, (keeps booting into the YaBoot screen). Please help.
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >
> > If you leave Yaboot configured exactly as it was with YDL then Q4 should work
> > OK. I upgraded my version over the net with their 'upgrade' script. It
> > downloaded everything I needed, installed it all and it ran first time.
> >
> > Keith Walter
> >
> >
> I tried using a yaboot.conf like I had with my YDL, (the YDl and suse are on
> other machines btw), and part of my problem seems to be that vmlinux is over
> in the linux side with LinuxPPC, and it's on an HFS partition with the
> others. root is /hda/12 macOS is /hda/9 the boot partition, (that contains
> yaboot and the fake system folder) is hda/10, and swap is /hda/11.
Vmlinux was on the HFS (OS9) side of my machine for both YDL and Q4, repeated in
/boot on the linux side with the system map.
Keith Walter
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