Subject: Re: What's the deal with bootstrap (can't find YDL to boot now)?
From: Marc Stergionis (stermarc@home.com)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2001 - 10:45:10 MST
Sometime around 7:49 PM -0500 on 11/5/01, Bo Brinkman pounded out this ditty:
>>Hmmmm ... according to the note:
>>
>>"If yaboot fails to execute after installing YDL 2.1
>>After install, reboot and hold the "c" key. Once you get to boot
>>options, type the following:
>>
>>cd-linux root=/dev/<linux root partition>
>>(where <linux root partition> may be, for example, hda7 or sda6,
>>but without the < and >) Then:
>>
>>/usr/sbin/ybin "
>>
>>... I tried holding down "c" with the CD in, then did
>>
>>cd-linux root=/dev/hda14
>>
>>(return) ... then the kernel starts and I get to my installed linux system.
>
OK, now I'm really having a dense "boomer" (not senior!) moment.
After I get the boot options from booting off the CD and type
"cd-linux root=/dev/hda14"
I don't get when I'm supposed to type
"/usr/sbin/ybin"
because the kernel immediately starts loading (usual stream of text
system check) and then I go straight to a graphical login field....
Trying to type /usr/sbin/ybin during that kernel boot doesn't do
anything.
I dumped my pdisk output below ...
Mac OS9 is at /hda8
Mac OS X is at /hda9
Then a mess o' drive stuff and then a couple of HFS+ volumes at /hda12&13.
My *root* partition is at /hda14
My bootstrap is at /hda15 ... not convinced I really know what that's doing/for
You're right ... the kernel did flag one of my swap partitions though ....
And then I've got another ext2 volume at /hda18 ... wanted to be able
to use it for overflow or /usr but not sure how to accomplish that
since the installer won't allow me to name it /usr as YDL did with
version 1.2.1...
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/ata2.0' (/dev/hde)
#: type name length base ( size )
1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
2: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 524289 @ 33667489 (256.0M)
3: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 74 @ 118
4: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 54 @ 192
5: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 74 @ 246
6: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 320
7: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 832
8: Apple_HFS "Macintosh HD" 20553233 @ 1344 ( 9.8G)
9: Apple_HFS untitled 2 10039932 @ 20554577 ( 4.8G)
10: FWB Driver Components FWB Driver Components 904 @ 30594509
11: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 76 @ 30595413
12: Apple_HFS MacOS 2048000 @ 30595489 (1000.0M)
13: Apple_HFS MacOS 1024000 @ 32643489 (500.0M)
14: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 4095999 @ 34191778 ( 2.0G)
15: Apple_Bootstrap untitled 20481 @ 38287777 ( 10.0M)
16: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 524289 @ 38308258 (256.0M)
17: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 524289 @ 38832547 (256.0M)
18: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 804152 @ 39356836 (392.7M)
19: Apple_Free Extra 54 @ 64
>Now at this point you did /usr/sbin/ybin, right? If that doesn't
>work, you might have the same problem I had: My /etc/yaboot.conf was
>wrong, though I assumed this was because I didn't something screwy
>at the partioning stage. My yaboot.conf had boot=/dev/hda11 and my
>MacOS partition set as /dev/hda10...when in fact Macos is on
>/dev/hda9, boot /dev/hda10 and /dev/hda11 was my swap. Perhaps you
>should boot into linux (using the cd-linux root=/dev/hda14) and then
>check your yaboot.conf and see if it is right? Also, if you get an
>error at boot time that says something about swapon, then you
>probably have the same problem I had, and will have to reformat your
>swap. (mkswap /dev/hdaX I think, though you should certainly check
>and think carefully first!!)
-- Many have Montana envy ... the lucky get to live here! Marc Stergionis -- Community Relations & website author Benefis Healthcare <http://www.benefis.org> "Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer."
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