Subject: Re: Mac Newbie yaboot question
From: Robert Vogt IV (robert@arborhost.com)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 21:07:00 MDT
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Steve Cockwell wrote:
> guide and set in to do the install. I couldn't tell for certain from
> the instructions if it was okay to toast all of the Mac partitions on
> the drive, but it was my intention to relieve the Mac from it's native
> OS - completely. So I did.
>
> For the last few hours I've been trying to figure out what it is about
> the iMac that I don't know, or about Yellow Dog that I didn't understand
> - but I can't boot YDL to save my life. I've partitioned the drive with
> a swap (100Meg) and a root (the rest of the 4Gig drive). I've booted
> the cd and ran through the install - no problems.
>
> As per the instructions, I booted the Mac into it's firmware and spent a
> lot of time playing around with it's settings trying to convince it to
> boot the image YDL left on the root partition. No dice.
>
> So you will all have to forgive me for being really stupid. I know a
> *lot* about Linux, but almost nothing about Macs. I can read. I've
> searched the archives and read the install guide. Either I'm trying to
> do something that's impossible, or I'm missing something important. I
> can't shake the feeling that thousands of others must have installed YDL
> on an iMac without the MacOS.
>
> Yes, I caught the references to installing a partition on the Mac with
> the MacOS install CD, but without the actual OS. However, I assumed
> (possibly incorrectly) that this was a requirement for machines that did
> not have new(ish) firmware.
You need an HFS partition to put yaboot.tbxi and yaboot.conf
on. Read the bootloader instructions.
-Robert Vogt IV
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