Subject: Re: booting YDL 2.1 to a Slave Hard Drive
From: Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
Date: Sun Jan 06 2002 - 17:23:31 MST
Oops! Forgot that you cannot boot into your linux drive :)))
Try the following in Open firmware:
boot ultra1:,\\yaboot
This should show you the yaboot prompt.
-- Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
On Sunday 06 January 2002 02:43, you wrote:
> I have recently started to become linux savvy. I have the YDL for Your
> PowerPC book, and the accompanying CD.
>
> Using the book, I am able to successfully install YDL 2.1 on a 13 GB
> partition of my Master Hard Drive (ID=0 ATA 1), and select either Linux
> 2.1, Mac OS 8.6, or whatever happens to be in my CD drive to boot up.
>
> I am using a Blue and White Mac G3 with 20 GB Master (ID=0 ATA 1) and 20
> GB Slave (ID=1 ATA 1) internal Hard Drives installed. I have 576 MB of
> built in Memory.
>
> I have attempted to install Mac OS 8.6, alone, on the Master HD, and
> Linux on the Slave HD. I initialized both Hard Drives using the Drive
> Setup that came on my Mac setup CD, and to provide an 'unassigned'
> partition on the Salve HD of about 16 GB to accommodate the YDL 2.1
> material on the CD that came with my YDL for Power PC book.
>
> During the set up of YDL 2.1, I selected the Mac OS as the "default"
> program to boot; hoping that I'd be presented the option of choosing
> either the Mac OS, Linux, or the CD tray for about 10 seconds before the
> automatic selection of Mac OS. This doesn't happen! When I select
> linux, by pressing the "l" key, the Mac OS is brought up.
>
> It seems to me that the problem is that I haven't been able to figure
> out a way for the yboot selection to go over to the Slave drive, find
> the linux program, and select it. I have designated (and allocated a 10
> MB for) a partition for the 'Bootloader' as per the instructions. This
> 10 MB partition is placed at Device hdb 6, untitled, and with a
> filesystem of 'hfs'. Swap is at hdb 7 (128 MB), and the linux program
> is at hdb 8 with a filesystem name of ext2.
>
> Can anyone help me figure out how to be able to keep Mac OS on the
> Master HD, Linux on the Slave HD, and be able to choose which one I want
> to use? Right know, I know I have the linux program(s) on the Slave
> drive, but I can't get to them.
> John Burke
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