Subject: Re: yellowdog-general Digest 31 Oct 2000 21:13:22 -0000 Issue 278
From: William F. Hostman (aramis@gci.net)
Date: Tue Oct 31 2000 - 19:47:27 MST
> IMPORTANT: Make backups of all your old files, in particular, your working
>kernel on the mac side. The easiest way is to rename the new kernel
>"kernel-test" or something, then choose it during bootX. If you're using
>yaboot, I can't help you on how to specify the test kernel, but I'm sure it's
>not difficult.
You copy your working kernel's setup, and rename the test kernel (by say,
adding "-test" to the end of the filename (cp vmlinux vmlinux-test) before
dropping it into the same place as your yaboot.tbxi and yaboot.conf files,
For exampel from mine:
>init-message = "\nWelcome to Yellow Dog Linux!\nBooting from HD:12\nYDL on
>the iMac DV SE 500MHz\n\nHit <TAB> for boot options.\n\n"
>timeout = 100
>default = linux
>
>
>image = hd:12,vmlinux-2.2.17pre13-ben1
> label = install
> initrd = hd:12,ramdisk.image.gz
> append = "video=aty128fb:vmode:17,cmode:24"
>
>image = hd:12,vmlinux-2.2.17pre13-ben1
> label = rescue
> initrd = hd:12,rescue.image.gz
> append = "video=aty128fb:vmode:17,cmode:24"
>
>image = hd:12,vmlinux-2.2.17pre13-ben1
> label = linux
> root=/dev/hda10
> append = "video=aty128fb:vmode:17,cmode:24"
>
then add the following:
>image = hd:12,vmlinux-test
> label = test
> root=/dev/hda10
> append = "video=aty128fb:vmode:17,cmode:24"
>
and type test (rather than return or letting it timeout) at the yaboot prompt.
What the addition really is is a copy of your working boot section, with
the name of the kernel changed to match (in this case for a kernel which
has been renamed to "vmlinux-test") and change the label so that you can
access it. If it works fine, you can then rename the old one to, oh, say
label = old and the new one to label = linux, and after that, yaboot
defaults to the new one (or actually, whatever is specified in your
"default = " line.
While searching for a working kernel, I had at one point 10 different
kernels specified, all with both ramdisk boot (for the installer) and
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