Subject: Re: installing 1.2...
From: Mark Jaffe (wizards@wizdev.net)
Date: Sat Jun 09 2001 - 13:57:56 MDT
On 6/9/01 10:55 AM, "jesse" <jessewind@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Hey Everyone,
>
> I know yellowdog 2.0 just came out...but I had this old cd of 1.2 that I got
> last summer and never installed (because I had hardware problems that turned
> out to be caused by a lemon mother board and took several months to resolve
> and resulted in apple sending me a new computer).
>
>
> anyway, in the instructions for configuring yaboot to autoboot YDL it says a
> typical file is as follows:
> time-out = 120
> image=hd:8,\\vmlinux
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda11
> novideo
>
>
> what mine says is this:
> init-message = "\nWelcome to Yellow Dog Linux!\nHit <TAB> for boot
> options.\n\n"
> timeout = 150
> default = install
>
> image = cd:,\\\\vmlinux
> label = install
> initrd = cd:,\\\\ramdisk.image.gz
> novideo
>
>
>> >From reading the support information on the net, the \\\\ seems to be
>> correct, and the \\ was just a little typo. But why does my yaboot.conf file
>> differ so much?
>
> At first I thought cd refered to my cd drive, but I think my cd-rom drive
> would be hdb.
>
> And no, I haven't gotten my computer to boot linux yet, I just get a black
> screen when I try. (and i've edited this yaboot.conf file so that it looks
> more like the one in the documentation and tried it that way, too)
>
> Maybe I should remove all this and get ydl 2.0?
>
> All Best,
> jesse
>
>
>
>
This is the initial setup you get before YDL is installed, so that it will
run the installer from the CD.
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