Subject: Re: What's the deal with bootstrap (can't find YDL to boot now)?
From: Bo Green (bogreen@sympatico.ca)
Date: Wed Nov 07 2001 - 13:38:02 MST
Here are my ybin options, and here is my output from parted
(I include the command line fyi). Notice a couple of things: I had
to modify my ybin options, which were not correct at setup (don't
forget to run 'ybin' if you make changes), and the 10M boot partition
should be flagged as 'boot' in the parted output (it should be hfs).
Mine is working great...
Bo
# ybin options
boot=/dev/hda13
macos=/dev/hda9
macosx=/dev/hda10
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
delay=10
defaultos=macos
enablecdboot
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[root@localhost /root]# parted /dev/hda print
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-19077.187 megabytes
Disk label type: mac
Minor Start End Filesystem Name Flags
1 0.000 0.031 Apple
2 0.031 0.057 Macintosh
3 0.058 0.093 Macintosh
4 0.094 0.120 Macintosh
5 0.120 0.156 Macintosh
6 0.156 0.253 Macintosh
7 0.254 0.503 Macintosh
8 0.504 0.753 Patch Partition
9 0.754 10000.753 hfs untitled
10 10000.754 10008.753 MOSX_OF3_Booter
11 10008.754 10009.253 SecondaryLoader
12 10009.254 14000.753 sun-ufs Mac_OS_X
13 14000.754 14010.754 hfs untitled boot
14 14010.754 14138.754 linux-swap swap swap
15 14138.755 19077.187 ext2 untitled
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
>>
>
>
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