Subject: Re: Ibook 2001 and YDL 2.1
From: Bo Brinkman (brinkman@cs.princeton.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2001 - 09:54:27 MST
I think the recent YDL releases use "parted" instead of pdisk or fdisk.
I would use parted to print out your partition table, and then check
your yaboot.conf to see if it matches what your partition table says. In
my case, the yaboot.conf was totally screwed up: Fix yaboot.conf to
point to the right partitions and try /usr/sbin/ybin again. For me, this
fixed things.
Bo
Lionel Bringuier wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I bought a brand new Ibook last saturday and tried a fresh install of
> YDL 2.1.
>
> First, I never had the chance to get to the GUI Installer. I stayed with
> 'ncurses' one. But that is none of a problem. The default kernel (2.4)
> gave me the usual 'wrong media type' error when mounting the CDROM. So I
> switched to the 2.2-based install kernel and the install process ran
> (nearly) flawlessly.
>
> The problem is that I cannot boot on Linux using yaboot. I can access my
> installed system booting with the CDRom with "root=/dev/hda12", but
> there is no way to install yaboot on my bootstrap partition. The system
> seems to be messed up with my partitions, and I don't know how to check
> them. Yabootconf complains that there is no mac-fdisk installed... I
> cannot find it either ! There is 'fdisk' but it seems that it is the
> Intel one, but no pdisk or whatever else.
>
> When the system boot on my hard disk, I can see the "folder/?" icon
> indicating that it cannot read the bootloader and it finds my macosX
> partition. Does that mean that my bootstrap partition is correctly
> set-up or not ? Can I format a bootstrap partition from a mkfs.XXX
> command or must I run the MacOS Partition tool again ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> LB.
>
> PS : I'm a totally newbie at Apple harware and software (this is my
> first Mac !), but I am a old-time Intel Linux user, so please excuse my
> lack of precision here, and don't be afraid to point me to very
> technical resources :)
>
-- William "Bo" Brinkman brinkman@cs.princeton.edu Princeton Computer Science http://www.derandomized.org/ -- Real programmers don't write specs. Users should be grateful for whatever they get. They are lucky to get any program at all! --Real Programmers Don't Eat Quiche
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