Subject: Re: 2.1 Install & Bootloader
From: Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
Date: Mon Jan 07 2002 - 16:26:05 MST
What did you change in /etc/fstab? You should not have to change anything
manually ... also, when you boot with cd-linux, what is the root= that you
use? What does your /etc/yaboot.conf look like?
-- Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
On Monday 07 January 2002 03:56, you wrote:
> I've just installed YDL 2.1 on my '99 iMac DV SE.
>
> Initially, the bootloader didn't work at all. After some fiddling with
> /etc/fstab, the instructions on the website in the engineering notes did
> get me a functioning bootloader. However, it fails to start Linux, saying:
>
> [complicated path which looks correct]:/vmlinux: corrupt filesystem
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to fix this? (It will boot MacOS
> and the CD without problems.)
>
> The cd-linux root= boot method works perfectly well, so the rest of the
> install appears to have worked correctly.
>
> David Chart
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