Subject: Re: YDL install w/ multiple drives
From: Juan Manuel Palacios (jmpalacios@mac.com)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2002 - 09:49:47 MST
Hello Mr. Simco. I've been following your thread and I think I have
a couple of things to suggest. Traditionally the Linux kernel has had
problems dealing with drives that have more than 16 partitions, it can't
even read past the 15th. I don't think that's bugging you since I read
you only had a "couple" of partitions in your Mac OS drive. But I'm
afraid we could be in front of a similar scenario with the number of
drives. I'm not sure about this since I've not encountered myself, but
is a possibility. You said that the drive was being recognized as "hde",
so maybe Linux has problems getting that far. Why don't you first issue
the following command at the console prompt:
dmesg >> dmesg.txt
That generates a text file with the output of the boot-up sequence.
That is, you'll read there the practically unreadable text you see upon
Linux boot-up, which gives you practically all the information you need
about how Linux sees your hardware. Then you can read it with either one:
more dmesg.txt
less dmesg.txt
I personally prefer "less" since it lets you scroll up AND down the
text with the arrow keys, since "more" only lets you scroll down. Read
carefully and try to spot any messages there that refers to the
recognition of your ide (that was VERY ingenious Avinash) drives. If you
do see any type of problem with the drives (maybe due to the excess in
number of them) try re-jumpering them in order to make your Mac OS
partition "hdb". Is this possible? At least try making it anything
smaller than "e". Then edit your yaboot.conf file and see how it goes
from there. Let me know your luck.
I'll leave you now to it. I hope I was helpful. Sincerely,...
Juan.
On Thursday, January 3, 2002, at 03:03 AM, C.L. Simco wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> OK, I proceeded cautiously with the below steps and when
> I edit..... " /etc/yaboot.conf " to include the
> "macos=/dev/hde8"
>
> then from the Konsole command prompt run 'ybin"
>
> I get the following message:
>
> (quote)
> of path: device: /dev/hde8 is not supported
> ybin: unable to determine the real open firmware path
> for macos/dev/hde8
> ybin: try specifying the real open firmware path for
> /etc yaboot.conf
> (end quote)
>
> Boot screen sees and labels the drive, pdisk as well...
> I have no idea how to "specify the "Real Path"...
>
> Thanks for your time and brain power...
>
> CL
>
>
> "C.L. Simco" wrote:
>
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