Subject: Re: Re : problem w/ boot configuration on G4
From: Charles Stevenson (csteven@terraplex.com)
Date: Mon Jun 05 2000 - 13:52:06 MDT
On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > De : Charles Stevenson <csteven@terraplex.com>
> > À : yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> > Objet : Re: problem w/ boot configuration on G4
> > Date : Lun 05 juin 2000 16:44
> >
> >
> > You can boot from the tasty morsels CD by typing:
> >
> > linux root=/dev/hda10
> >
> > replacing hda10 with your root device.
>
>
> damn...it looks like my whole install of YDL is a loss of time
> whatever dev/hdxyz I try to boot it fails...
> If I ask for a dev that is not a linux one, it simply fails and prompt me
> for a new attempt, if I ask for one of my linux partition (from hdb10 root,
> to hdb13 swap) it fails on something, keep loading stuffs and finaly I got a
> kernel panic ("unable to mount root filesystem" or something alike) and says
> "reboot in 180 sec."
when you type linux root=/dev/hdb10 what error message do you get?
> lurking on the tasty morsel CD after finaly typed "rescue", I've tryied the
> fdisk enclosed. It was unable to find any partition in my disks...
Hrm... did you reboot after writing the partition map?
regards,
charles
>
> pat
>
>
> >
> > regards,
> > charles
> >
> > On Sat, 03 Jun 2000, you wrote:
>
> >> doh...
> >> well that's not a good news for me, because I'm working most of the time on
> >> MacOS, so having to re-write the OF each time I want to boot linux is really
> >> boring.
> >> Someone told me that using the install CD allow you to boot linux without
> >> touching OF. But this guy uses LinuxPPC, and I'm not sure this workaround
> >> can work with Yellowdog. He just press C on reboot, and in the green prompt,
> >> press TAB and type "linuxppc".
> >> I'll try this before dealing with OF...stay tuned :)
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