Subject: Impossible with YDL on plain G4? (was: Re: FAQ and Yaboot)?
From: david bonde (i97_bed@i.kth.se)
Date: Fri May 19 2000 - 09:32:37 MDT
At 18.18 -0700 00-05-17, Ryan Griffith wrote/00-05-17, 18.18 -0700
skrev Ryan Griffith:
> > I guess this is in a faq so please redirect me if that is the case.
>>
>> I just installed CS 1.2 on my G4/AGP, but how do I boot it?
>>
>> I have copied these files:
>>
>> vmlinux
>> yaboot.conf
>> yaboot.tbxi
>>
>> to the root level of my MacOS start up partition (I have several
>> MacOS partitions and I don't plan to stop use MacOS), which according
>> to both fdisk and hdt is number 8. The conf files look like this:
>>
>> timeout= 5
>> default = linux
>> image=hd:8,\vmlinux
>> label=linux
> > root=/dev/hda14
>
>I had a problem with that also when I put those three files in the system
>folder. I kept getting an error like: "can't open yaboot.tbxi" or
>something. Then I tried just putting them on the hard drive in no
>particular folder and I was able to boot successfully using the same
>command. Hope this helps.
I already have them on the root level. Does it matter if I put them
on a partition with a valid MacOS system folder or not?
Is there no one on this list that uses YDL on a plain G4/AGP? How
does you conf-file and your OF commands look?
tia
David
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