Re: yaboot on sawtooth G4

[Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>]

On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 11:46:55PM -0500, Jason M Varner wrote:

> >    load-size=264466 adler32=(something)
> >    Loading ELF
> >    CLAIM failed
> >    ok
> >
> > boot hd:yaboot.conf                <--- very silly
> >    load-size=4b   adler32=b24b1919
> >    unrecognized Client Program format
> >
> > Yet something not so silly yields...
> >
> > boot hd:yaboot_0.5
> >     Can't open hd:yaboot_0.5
> >
> 
> Try something like
> 
> boot hd:,yaboot_0.5
> 
> which is what works for yaboot-0.4 on my sawtooth's HFS+ partition. 'Course, my
> HFS partition is at the start of the drive, so this may not work. Apparently,
> your HFS_Bootstrap partition is at the start of the disk, so it might work. OF
> is weird, so you never know.

OF is very wierd...
 
but yes that comma is usually important, its probably better to
specify the partition number explicitly as well:

boot hd:5,yaboot

for example if your partition holding yaboot at the moment is
partition 5.  

-- 
Ethan Benson