Subject: Re: YDL 2.0 Install problem
From: pete (pete@linuxfreemail.com)
Date: Mon Jul 09 2001 - 18:04:42 MDT
Ed, this is a shot in the dark from another newbie, but is the UltraStar on
a third-party SCSI card? Could the lack of a driver for the SCSI card
account for your problems?
How do you have BootX configured? Are you sure it points at the correct
disk? I believe you need a kernel argument along the lines of "boot=sdb7" or
whatever the correct device and partition is. I can check in my settings to
get the exact syntax, and will let you know what I find (I'm not near the
machine now.)
Basically BootX will try to boot off the same disk as it's on, unless you
tell it otherwise.
Good luck, and let me know if any of this helps...
-Pete
> This is my first post to this list and I'll confess to being a YDL 2.0
> newbie. I want to run YDL on my second IBM hard drive. (9.1 GB Ultrastar)
> on my PowerComputing PowerCenterPro 240. Mac OS 9.1 runs fine on my primary
> HD. I have been unable to get Bootx to install, instead getting a black
> screen with all the stuff "detected" and an immediate crash, showing that it
> is "unable to read partition table." I suspect this may be because it is
> not an Apple HD and I have tried both FWB Hard Disk Toolkit and Anubis 3.2.1
> Utility to initialize/format/partition the target drive and Bootx doesn't
> like either one.
>
> I know that my machine is not "Officially Supported" but the YDL site lists
> it as one that "should run". I'll be grateful for any suggestions. Thanks,
> Ed
>
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