Re: iMac and yaboot

Subject: Re: iMac and yaboot
From: Tim Long (tim.long@ukonline.co.uk)
Date: Sun May 07 2000 - 10:45:25 MDT

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'root' is the 'Macintosh HD'. The ydl manual for yaboot is vague but there is
another page on the ydl site that gives more information and clears up some
issues http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/faq_bootloader.shtml

I finally managed to run cs 1.2 having read those pages about yaboot.

Tim

vvichaik wrote:

> I may have sent this to a different list so forgive me if this has
> previously appeared.
>
> I've sucessfuly installed Yellow Dog onto my iMac (I think). The only
> problem is that the manual says to drag yaboot and some other files onto the
> "root level of my Macintosh hard drive". I'm pretty familiar with macs and
> I've never heard of a root level on my hard drive. What is this? I can't
> seem to get Yellow Dog to boot because of this.
>
> So close yet so far away.
>
> Thanks

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