Subject: Re: Another question considering yboot not finding the image
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Sat Oct 28 2000 - 20:29:50 MDT
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, philippe tapon wrote:
>
> > I have also tried
> >
> > image=/vmlinux --> with the kernal on the / directiory and in many
> > other places too
> > label=Linux
> > root=/dev/hdb9
> > partition=9
>
> try image=hd:x,\\vmlinux
>
> where x refers to the partition number that has the boot MacOS partition
> (seems like 8 in your case). The \\ sometimes works if the vmlinux file
> is in the root directory of the MacOS partition. If vmlinux is in the
> MacOS System folder you may have to use \\\\ instead. Yaboots vary. . .
I recently discovered the reason for this.
In OF, you use "boot hd:,\\yaboot". However, in yaboot you can escape
characters using \ (for example, "\n"). So to get an actual "\", you need
to type "\\" (this is typical).
Since yaboot has supported the "\n" bit for a long time, I suspect this
has not changed.
In summary, you should use "\\\\" in your yaboot.conf to refer to the
System Folder and "\\" in OF. If anyone finds that doesn't work I'd like
to hear about it.
-Hollis
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