Re: iBook SE shutting down when booting


Subject: Re: iBook SE shutting down when booting
From: Andrew T (powermac@sympatico.ca)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2000 - 11:49:32 MST


Thanks very much!

I went with your suggestion and it was able to see yaboot. However it was
not able to see the kernel image. I will continue and will post once I
have success. I gave up on Bootx, the only thing it seems to do is reset
my date to 1904 when clicking on "Linux".

regards,
        Andrew

At 08:51 AM 03/07/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>try this: "boot hd:10,yaboot_0.5"
>adjusted for whichever version of yaboot you are using.
>if that doesn't work, try changing the 10 to 9, 11, etc. . .
>
>-ian
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>> From: Andrew T <powermac@sympatico.ca>
>> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 08:49:23 -0500
>> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>> Subject: iBook SE shutting down when booting
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm trying to boot YDL with Bootx (using the ibook kernal on the site) and
>> it will display the begining of the kernal being loaded and then it just
>> powers off. I've tried different options in Bootx and nothing. I'm also
>> trying yaBoot but haven't figured out the OF syntax yet to tell it to look
>> at the second HFS partition.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Andrew
>>
>> BTW: YellowDog runs great on my Beige 233 G3.
>>
>>
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