Subject: Re: What's the deal with bootstrap (can't find YDL to boot now)?
From: Bo Brinkman (brinkman@cs.princeton.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 07 2001 - 12:45:48 MST
Wow. Now you are getting weird errors I've never seen. Of course if ybin
failed, you should probably expect that your system would keep booting
into MacOS (regardless of what defaultos is).
What partition program are you using, pdisk? I am using parted, so it is
hard for me to compare your output you posted earlier with mine. :(
As for hcopy failing...is it possible that /dev/hda15 was already
mounted somewhere? Another possibility is that it never got an hfs
file-system built on it... Otherwise, I dunno why hcopy would think it
was read-only.
Bo
Marc Stergionis wrote:
> Cool, OK now I logged in as root, ran /usr/sbin/ybin
>
> Seemed to take, cause there was HD access, then a new prompt.
>
> I rebooted, and did not get a linux boot either with a simple reboot or with
> an Open Firmware (option key) restart.
>
> OK, I edited /etc/yaboot.conf (there were some errors on the partitions
> recorded there). Restarted, still the same; restarted with the CD and ran
> /usr/sbin/ybin and I got:
>
> hcopy: "/tmp/ofboot.Sa5K7U": read-only file system
> ybin: An error occurred while writing to /dev/hda15
>
> In addition, even after changing yaboot.conf to "defaultos=linux" I have now
> graduated to a reboot which produces first a blue folder then the MacFace
> blue folder, then a boot into OS9.2.1.
>
> So I continue to *only* be able to boot linux if I have the CD in and hold
> down "c"
>
> BTW, I'm assuming in yaboot.conf that the "boot" partition looked for in the
> top of the file is the 10MB "bootstrap" volume (/hda15) created in the
> installer and the "root" partition is root, at /hda14
>
> Thanks
>
> -ms
-- 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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