Subject: Re: help, please ! yaboot conf.
From: Charles Stevenson (csteven@terraplex.com)
Date: Thu Jun 15 2000 - 07:53:36 MDT
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Let me try this again:
> If there's an official site for yaboot, where is it ?
http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/
> I have read many (!) sites that offer this or that little bit of info,
> but where can I find a detailed listing of options and the necessary
> formatting for the yaboot.conf file ? Is there even such information
> available, and if NOT, then how is one supposed to figure this out ?
>
> Here's my config file:
>
> timeout = 5
> default = linux
>
> image = hd:5,\vmlinux
> label = linux
> root = /dev/hdb9
> append="no video"
> append="hdb=noautotune"
>
> At boot, yaboot gives me a warning about the "duplicate" entry, but this
> seems to work. If I drop the noautotune line, linux slows down horribly. If
> I try to include the line hdb=noautotune as is, I get an error message in
> yaboot, and can't boot into linux.
> Yes, I've looked around, I spent time trying to find info on this, to no
> avail. There is a FAQ page, but it's pretty lacking at this point. Please
> help...
-- Terra Soft Solutions, Inc. http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/Yellow Dog Linux "The Ultimate Companion for a Dedicated Server" http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
Black Lab Linux Advanced Workstations, Parallel, and Embedded Solutions http://www.blacklablinux.com/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2a24 : Thu Jun 15 2000 - 08:13:01 MDT