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 - 13:28:39 MST
From Dan Burcaw of YDL:
"The new fuji image and the new ramdisk.image.gz do not have that
problem. For people with the old iso, they should download the new
ramdisk, and use "hd-install""
So maybe the easiest fix is to get the new installer ramdisk (or even
the new fuji iso (20011105) and re-install.
Marc Stergionis 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
>>>
>>> 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
>>
>
>
-- 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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