Subject: Re: installing onto slave IDE drive
From: Jim Potter (jrp@wvi.com)
Date: Sat Nov 18 2000 - 13:33:34 MST
I don't have a "root = " line in my yaboot.conf file; in fact, I've never seen the
entries in the yaboot.conf file work for me -- and I always manually type things in
-- in OF: "boot ultra1:,\\yaboot" and in yaboot: "ultra1:,\\vmlinux".
It's a pain, and automating it would be nice. Also being able to boot from a slave
drive would be nice, so that I can leave my MacOSX drive in there, too; they ALSO
need to be on the master drive, and changing drives out makes for a limited drive
life.
BTW, I'm running on a recent 500 mhz dual-G4 unit.
> On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Jim Potter wrote:
>
> > > After installation you will need to modify your yaboot.conf to change
> > > "hd:" to "ultra1:".
> >
> > I've tried that (booting from IDE slave drive, using 'ultra1:' instead of 'hd:')
> > and the kernel failed on bootup, saying that it could not mount root (...as I
> > recall. It's been a little while). I'd like to boot from slave, too.
>
> I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking straight. You would need to use "ultra1" if
> you had yaboot on the slave drive; if it's on your master drive then
> ignore me. :) (ultra1 is an Open Firmware name; it doesn't mean anything
> to the Linux kernel.)
>
> The message you described is from the kernel after it's booted and can't
> find the partition you want to boot from. This could be because you
> specified an incorrect "root =" line in your yaboot.conf; remove that line
> completely and the kernel should autodetect it.
>
> In the boot messages you will see a partition check that lists all
> available partitions. If you do not specify "root=" the kernel will pick
> one and print which one it's using here.
>
> -Hollis
-- Sincerely,Jim Potter 45th Parallel Processing jrp@wvi.com
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