Subject: Re: Basic question
From: David Salinas (rdsalinas@home.com)
Date: Fri Jun 16 2000 - 07:01:29 MDT
Put the file yaboot.tbxi, vmlinux, and yaboot.conf on the root level of
your Mac OS hard drive. Not in your system folder, but just right outside
of it: on your Mac OS side, not Linux (it's not as if you could :)
By the way, you didn't say if you had two hard drives, so I'm assuming
you are putting Mac OS and Linux on the same hard drive. I also assuming
that you've partitioned your Mac OS side as HFS not HFS+.
Edit your yaboot.conf file to look something like this:
timeout = 5
default = linux
image = hd:8,\vmlinux <---hd:8 is my Mac OS partion where vmlinux is
sitting
label = linux
root = /dev/hda11 <----hda11 is where my /root is located on the Linux
partition (Linux is installed here)
novideo <----use this video setting for now
<save and exit>
Reboot your Mac. Hold down the <o>, <f> <command> and <option> key. That's an
"Oh", not a "zero."
When you come up to the firmware "ok" prompt type:
hd:8,\yaboot.tbxi
I'm assuming that your Mac OS is on partition 8.
Good luck. You're gonna need it. :)
Sincerely, R. David Salinas
Yasir wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to install YDL CS 1.2 a couple of weeks back and found that BootX
> didn't work on my iMac DV with MacOS 9.0.3. I was told that I needed yaboot.
> So I looked at the yaboot FAQ and found that in order to install yaboot I
> need to run linux. But how can I run linux?
>
> I have actually installed linux (by booting the Mac off the CD) but I have
> no way of booting into my installation. Is there a way a of booting into my
> installation by booting off the CD? If so how? My installation is on
> partition hda11. When I got the boot: prompt on booting off the CD, instead
> of typing 'install' I typed hda11/boot/ (and other variations) but it kept
> saying 'device not found'.
>
> Can someone please give me simple instructions for installing linux in my
> system? The yaboot FAQ is either too cryptic or for people who've already
> successfuly installed linux on PPCs before and know a lot about this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yasir
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