Subject: Re: Ibook 2001 and YDL 2.1
From: Lionel Bringuier (lb@fr.netcentrex.net)
Date: Wed Nov 07 2001 - 00:46:36 MST
Yes ! That's right. Once I had run 'parted', I had to fix yaboot.conf
(the bootstrap partition was taken as 'hda11', which in fact was my swap
partition !), repair my bootstrap partition with 'mkofboot' -or st like
that, I don't remember exactly the name- and run 'ybin' again. Now it
works. Yipiiie.
Thanks Bo.
LB.
On mar, nov 06, 2001 at 11:54:27 -0500, Bo Brinkman wrote:
> 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 :)
> >
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