Subject: Re: installing onto slave IDE drive
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Sat Nov 18 2000 - 13:52:52 MST
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Jim Potter wrote:
> 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 may be easier for you to keep yaboot, yaboot.conf, and the bootscript
on your master drive. If you do that, you will need to only modify
yaboot.conf.
If you keep them all on your slave drive, you will need to modify both
your yaboot.conf and the bootscript.
To modify your bootscript
(http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/HOWTO/bootscript),
change "hd:,\\yaboot" to "ultra1:,\\yaboot".
To modify your yaboot.conf
(http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/HOWTO/yaboot.conf),
change all instances of "hd:" to "ultra1:".
Then you can use the bootscript and yaboot.conf as normal users do.
> 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.
It's possible to boot Linux from your slave device. As you've discovered,
it is significantly easier to do it from a master drive. I think only you
can decide how much your time and frustration is worth. :)
-Hollis
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