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 - 13:30:11 MST
OH, yeah ... and referring to Bo's earlier note, I *was* getting errors on
two of my swap partitions, /hda16 & /hda17
I was able to mkswap /dev/hda16 and alleviate *that* part on the next boot.
But attempting
mkswap /dev/hda17
got: "No such file or directory"
and at YDL bootup, the system check says when activating swap:
cannot stat /dev/hda17 No such file or directory.
Going back to Mac OS, pdisk shows this volume as "Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap" just
like the other two swap partitions. I have 768MB of hard RAM and didn't want
to triple that, but I thought I should at least equal my hardware RAM with
Swap.
-ms
On Wednesday 07 November 2001 01:09, you wrote:
> 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
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