Subject: Re: What's the deal with bootstrap (can't find YDL to boot now)?
From: Bo Brinkman (brinkman@cs.princeton.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2001 - 11:03:38 MST
Marc Stergionis wrote:
> 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.
Yes, then login as root and run ybin. :) ybin is a linux program that
installs yaboot in the correct partition and makes the partition
bootable. So 1) Boot your linux system using the cd 2) Login as root 3)
Check your /etc/yaboot.conf to see if it is sane 4) run the program
/usr/sbin/ybin as root 5) Reboot and pray
> 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...
As for this... You can manually switch things around yourself, but it is
a bit scary since there are lots of important executables in the /usr
directory. Maybe someone who has done it successfully before can help
you. I have moved my home from the root partition to a separate
partition, but this is not as tricky because you aren't trying to move
things that you might also being wanting to execute in order to
accomplish the move. :)
> 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!!)
>
>
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