Subject: Re: Ybin inst failure on B/W G3 Rev 1
From: Jeroen Diederen (jdiederen@epo.org)
Date: Thu Nov 15 2001 - 07:33:56 MST
I think the easiest way to do this is by rebooting and pressing alt. You will see a
blue screen with your different startup discs. Choose the one with Linux. This will
boot up Linux. In Linux type in ybin in a Linux window. This will run ybin that
reconfigures your MacOSROM (i.e. your OF settings). From then on if you reboot, it
will load yaboot.conf
Ciao
(I had the same thing lately, I am a NEwbie)
Patrick Ladam wrote:
> Patrick Callahan wrote:
>
> > I have a Blue G3 rev 1 and it boots fine. Details below
> >
> > hda9 is my yaboot partition. Anyone know if its ok to mount the yaboot
> > partition or does it get un-blessed or other bad things happen if you do?
> >
> > Linux is installed in hda12.
> >
> > If you're having trouble booting, its a good idea to include the following
> > info in your post.
> > o Your ybin version
> > o Your Yaboot.conf file
> > o a listing of what's in your /boot partition
> >
> > (What else would be good to have? Anyone?)
> >
> > /usr/sbin/ybin --version
> > ybin 1.3.4-ydl
> >
> > cat /etc/yaboot.conf
> >
> > # ybin options
> > boot=/dev/hda9
> > macos=/dev/hda6
> > macosx=/dev/hda7
> > magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
> > delay=10
> > defaultos=linux
> > enablecdboot
> >
> > # yaboot options
> > init-message="\nWelcome to Yellow Dog Linux\n\n"
> > timeout=50
> > default=linux
> > partition=12
> >
> > # yaboot images
> > image=/boot/vmlinux
> > label=linux
> > root=/dev/hda12
> >
> > image=/boot/vmlinux
> > label=linux-novideo
> > root=/dev/hda12
> > novideo
> >
> > s -lah /boot
> > total 8.2M
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0k Nov 14 05:42 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4.0k Nov 1 20:19 ..
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Nov 14 05:42 System.map ->
> > System.map-2.4.10-12a
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 581k Oct 9 05:16 System.map-2.4.10-12a
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Oct 24 19:12 module-info ->
> > module-info-2.4.10-12a
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11k Oct 9 05:16 module-info-2.4.10-12a
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Oct 24 19:12 vmlinux ->
> > vmlinux-2.4.10-12a
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.4M Oct 9 05:16 vmlinux-2.4.10-12a
> > <snip> I don't use prep
> >
> > On Wednesday 14 November 2001 02:34, you wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > > Got the latest 2.1 iso (20011105) and the install went on OK, excepted for
> > > yaboot.
> > > My config is:
> > > B/W G3 Revision 1 (yosemite) MacOS 9.1.
> > >
> > > After install and no yaboot prompt, I booted Linux from the CD and did the
> > > trick
> > >
> > > from the Inst. guide (rerun yabin). This did not work still and yaboot
> > > prompt did
> > > not show up. I checked my yaboot.conf file and it is OK.
> > > Then I went playing in the OpenFirmware and tried a bunch of 'boot
> > > hd:8,\\yaboot'
> > > (my bootstrap partition is on sda8) and other trials that never got me into
> > > Linux.
> > > There is definitely a problem with these Revision 1 B/W G3, it is said
> > > in http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/multiboot.shtml that:
> > > "Users of first generation New World ROM machines (original iMac, '99
> > > PowerBook, Blue and White G3) will need to follow more complex steps to
> > > get back into Linux. We will add this additional information to this topic
> > > in the near future. "
> > >
> > > Please can someone of YDL mail a fix for this, I am getting nuts trying
> > > desperatly to get yaboot working since two days with no succes!!! Heeeeelp!
> > >
> > > Bye and thanX for this killer distro anyway
>
> Here are some more info:
>
> This is my yaboot.conf file:
> ----------------------------
> # ybin options
> boot=/dev/sda8
> macos=/dev/sda6
> magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
> delay=10
> defaultos=macos
> enablecdboot
>
> # yaboot options
> init-message="\nWelcome to Yellow Dog Linux\n\n"
> timeout=50
> default=linux
> partition=9
>
> # yaboot images
> image=/boot/vmlinux
> label=linux
> root=/dev/sda9
>
> image=/boot/vmlinux
> label=linux-novideo
> root=/dev/sda9
> novideo
> -------------------------------
> So yaboot.conf seems coorect acoording to my partitions displayed
> with parted:
>
> [root@localhost /root]# parted /dev/sda print
> Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-8715.820 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 0.343 Macintosh
> 5 0.344 0.593 Patch Partition
> 6 0.594 2030.956 hfs YAP
> 7 2030.956 2158.956 linux-swap swap swap
> 8 2158.957 2168.957 hfs untitled boot
> 9 2168.957 8715.820 ext2 untitled
> [root@localhost /root]#
>
> -------------------------------
> ybin is version ybin 1.3.4-ydl
> Here is what ybin with verbose displays (sounds good to me...):
>
> [root@localhost /root]# ybin -v
> ybin: Finding OpenFirmware device path to `/dev/sda8'...
> ybin: Finding OpenFirmware device path to `/dev/sda6'...
> ybin: Installing first stage bootstrap /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot onto /dev/sda8...
> ybin: Installing primary bootstrap /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot onto /dev/sda8...
> ybin: Installing /etc/yaboot.conf onto /dev/sda8...
> ybin: Setting attributes on ofboot...
> ybin: Setting attributes on yaboot...
> ybin: Setting attributes on yaboot.conf...
> ybin: Blessing /dev/sda8 with Holy Penguin Pee...
> ybin: Updating OpenFirmware boot-device variable in nvram...
> [root@localhost /root]#
> [root@localhost /root]# gedit ybin_out &
> [1] 1944
> [root@localhost /root]#
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> And here is my /boot directory:
>
> ls -al /boot
> total 8312
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 15 08:52 .
> drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Nov 15 08:52 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Nov 15 08:52 System.map ->
> System.map-2.4.10-12a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 595345 Oct 9 11:16 System.map-2.4.10-12a
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Nov 12 22:23 module-info ->
> module-info-2.4.10-12a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11773 Oct 9 11:16 module-info-2.4.10-12a
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Nov 12 22:23 vmlinux ->
> vmlinux-2.4.10-12a
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4640939 Oct 9 11:16 vmlinux-2.4.10-12a
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Nov 12 22:23 zImage-chrp ->
> zImage-chrp-2.4.10-12a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1638882 Oct 9 11:16 zImage-chrp-2.4.10-12a
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Nov 12 22:23 zImage-prep ->
> zImage-prep-2.4.10-12a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1578345 Oct 9 11:16 zImage-prep-2.4.10-12a
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> Well I re-installed YDL 2.1 again and still the same. So I spent
> half of the night in the OpenFirmware trying various options to
> boot on yaboot. Unsuccessfully.
>
> Could someone tell me what are his OF variables after a yaboot install,
> I have the impression that mine are not correctly set for some weird
> reasons. You can see that by booting the mac while maintaining
> ALT+APPLE+o+f pressed. Here you get in the OF prompt, simply type
> printenv and you will have your variables displayed. Once you are
> done, type mac-boot or shut-down.
>
> Here is what I get for the relevant OF variables:
>
> boot-command: mac-boot (my guess is it should be boot)
> boot-file: none (my guess is it should be ofboot.b or yaboot)
> boot-device: /pci@80000000/pci-bridge@d/pci9004,7850@3/@0:8,\\:tbxi
>
> I tried a bunch of variations around boot-device (turn tbxi into yaboot
> for instance) with no succes. This is getting me mad!!!
>
> Bye
>
>
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