Subject: RE: Basic question
From: Yasir (yasirh@bigpond.com)
Date: Mon Jun 19 2000 - 02:21:31 MDT
Thanks for the detailed instructions. When I got to the prompt in Open
Firmware I had problems. When I typed
hd:9, \yaboot.tbxi
it gave me the message 'unknown word'.
BTW, I have version 2.4f1 (built on 02/18/00) of OF.
Can you help me further please?
Thanks,
Yasir.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Salinas [mailto:rdsalinas@home.com]
> Sent: 16 June 2000 23:01
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com; Yasir
> Subject: Re: Basic question
>
>
> 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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