Subject: Re: yellowdog-general Digest 18 Jun 2001 00:33:26 -0000 Issue 425
From: William Max Fredericksen (bill@spectrumgraphix.com)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 09:08:00 MDT
:::lurk mode off:::
hello!
just had to chime in on this one 'cause I've often wondered the same thing.
When I last had a Linux system running on a b&w G3, I was running YDL 1.2.1
and using the last revision of BootX to boot it, and never had a problem. In
fact, I never had any luck getting yaboot to work at all. Now that I am
reworking a G4/AGP box so I can dual boot the thing with 2.0 (which I am
still waiting to pick up 'cause you all are having so many problems with it
- not to knock Dan and the others but I am still not feeling good enough
about the new version yet to install it) I wanna know, why shouldn't I
continue as I had before with BootX 1.3.whatever? or for that matter why
not rewrite BootX to suit the newer machines? personally I like it more...
just my 2 cents...
Bill Fredericksen
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Date: 18 Jun 2001 00:33:26 -0000
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: yellowdog-general Digest 18 Jun 2001 00:33:26 -0000 Issue 425
> Hi. I'm running a rev 2 G3 with YDL 2 installed on a slave 30GB IDE drive.
> The installation went smoothly except the yaboot.conf file was not
> correctly generated. This seems to be the same problem reported by Sean
Bittinger on
> 2001.06.08 under the title, 'yaboot help'. Yaboot complains it can't find the
> kernel.
>
> Following my natural instinct (being a shoot-from-the-hip type of dude
> sometimes) I hastily installed bootX and to my (semi-)surprise everything
works fine now and
> I start YDL with the bootX extension. But this is a new world rom system so
this
> shouldn't work, right?. That it works at all was only a mild surprise; I had
the same
> experience on this particular machine with YDL 1.2.1 when I first installed it
too.
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