Subject: RE: I know this has been asked, but I STILL can't get YDL toworkon my powerbook
From: Timothy Morgenthaler (tamorgen@aol.net)
Date: Thu Mar 08 2001 - 09:00:12 MST
Okay, this is starting to work. Using boot hd:9,\yaboot does bring me into
yaboot when I put yaboot and the other files in the root directory instead
of the system folder. It doesn't let me run linux yet, I guess this is a
start. I verified that a few things:
1) boot hd:9,\\:tbxi does boot to the MacOS (whichever I have set as
default, which currently is OS X)
2) as I said, boot hd:9,\yaboot brings me to the yaboot prompt
3) My partition table, as listed from fdisk as follows:
1: Apple_partition_map Apple
2: Apple_Driver43 Macintosh
3: Apple_Driver43 Macintosh
4: Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh
5: Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh
6: Apple_FWDriver Macintosh
7: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh
8: Apple_Patches Patch Parition
9: Apple_HFS untitled
10: Apple_HFS untitled 2
11: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 yellowdog
12: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap
I know that the first Apple HFS is OS 9, and the second OS X, because that's
the way I set it up when I formated the drives.
The odd thing is, even though I'm telling it to boot from hd:9, it actually
does boot from hd:10. I put yaboot.conf in three locations Macintosh HD
(which is OS9), the sytem folder in there, and then in the root of OS X. In
the Yaboot startup dialog I placed 1, 2, and 3 in the echo so I would know
where it was taking yaboot from. It turns out, that it is taking it from
the OS X drive, which is really odd since I know it is on hda10. Anyway,
after fideling around with the yaboot.conf a bit, ydl is starting to load on
it's own . Now it's failing on a couple of issues:
Activating swap partitions swapon: /dev/hda12: Invalid argument
[FAILED]
Setting hosthame localhost.localdomain [ OK ]
Checking root filesystem
/dev/hda11: The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 2228732
blocks
The physcial size of the device is 2097152 blocks
Either the superblock orthe partition table is likely to be corrupt!
/dev/hda11: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
(i.e., without -a or -p options)
[FAILED]
*** An error occurred during the file check
*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
*** when you leave the shell.
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D for normal startup):
root@localhost /root]#
I guess this is promising, just looks messy. I guess my next step now is to
get the bootscript to work from the open firmware, and then figure out how
to fix this. Any suggestions on my problem now? Thanks.
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