Subject: yaboot help
From: Sean Bittinger (bittin_s@denison.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 08 2001 - 07:28:44 MDT
I could really use some advice/aid from anybody who knows alot about
yaboot or possibly OF (neither of which i know much about other than
what they do). I'm having a serious yaboot problem here. I just
recently installed YDL 2.0 on my machine (Rev.2 B&W G3, 384 MB RAM, 350
Mhz). The install process went smoothly, but now my machine won't boot
into linux. When yaboot comes up for the first time after the install,
I select "l" for linux, but then i get an error when it goes to load the
kernel. The error says something to the effect of kernel not found, and
informs me that there is an error in //yaboot.conf, and that the error
was of type -2 (I'm paraphrasing from memory here, but I'm pretty sure
that the -2 is right). After this nothing happens. If i reboot the
computer and select to boot to Mac it waits awhile, then i get a
blinking system folder question mark, and finally it boots to OS X
although 9.1 was selected with "System Disk". The other strange thing
about this is that after this happens the yaboot manager never comes up
again!!! Help!
Other than the specs listed above the computer is set up like this: 12
Gig drive as master on the primary chain partitioned into two HFS+
volumes, 8 Gigs first for X and 4 GIgs second for 9.1, 40 gig drive as
slave on the primary chain partitioned as 5 gigs for linux (10 Mb boot,
128 Mb swap, and the rest ext2 mount /root), and the rest of the 40 gigs
is an HFS+ volume for storage.
My first inclination was that these problems were do to me having OS X
around (which I'm not going to get rid of since i've been using it as my
"main OS"), but when I was reading yaboot info last night to see if I
could figure out a solution to my problem all the docs and such made it
sound like yaboot was a great solution to tri-booting your mac. it
seems as if i should be able pic 9.1, X, or linux with ease. What's
going wrong? Why won't linux boot? Why is the kernel not found? Why
can i not boot to 9.1 with yaboot? Why does yaboot disappear on me? Is
this related to Open Firmware? How do I solve this problem? All of the
docs i could find on working with yaboot 1.1.1 seem to make the
assumption that you can get access to your working linux install to do
so. I cannot. Help!
I appreciate any and all help in advance,
Sean Bittinger
P.S. If I can get this working would it ever be possible to get yaboot
set up so that I could do something like pressing "m" for mac, "X" for
OS X, and "l" for linux, saving the trouble of using System Disk, or is
that just not possible?
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