Subject: Re: What's the deal with bootstrap (can't find YDL to boot now)?
From: Marc Stergionis (stermarc@home.com)
Date: Wed Nov 07 2001 - 13:09:06 MST
If "parted" is what's inside the gui installer, then that's what I
used, sort of. I think I deleted partitions using pdisk (or was it
HDT?) then I used the GUI installer to create the three 256MB swap
partitions, 10MB Bootstrap partition, 2GB root partition and about a
400MB ext2 partition .... that I don't even know if YDL is
seeing/using :)
Anyway, the pdisk partition table I dumped shows /hda15 as "Apple_Bootstrap"
not HFS, although you'd think that YDL would see it since it was
created within the installer. I know it must not be "true" HFS
because it does not mount under Mac OS.
-ms
Sometime around 2:45 PM -0500 on 11/7/01, Bo Brinkman pounded out this ditty:
>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
-- 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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