Re: imac install
On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 10:20:23AM -0500, Todd Shrider wrote:
> Thanks!
>
> I found most of the stuff you pointed out. I also found a doc at:
>
> http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jonh/lppc-serve/cache/572.html
>
> that shows how to bootstrap a system from a ydl or linuxppc.com port.
>
> Unfortunately (?)
not unfortunately, yaboot is more robust and reliable. just create a
800K bootstrap partition at the front of your disk to hold it after
the install, and use my ybin utilites to manage it. just as easy as
lilo. (in mac-fdisk use the C command and create the bootstrap
partition as type Apple_Bootstrap)
ybin is at http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ybin/ you need to get the
hfsutils installed to use it though, once you get your base system
installed and going apt-get install hfsutils, and you should be read
to get yaboot more permanetly configured. then you can have a nifty
bootmenu to dual boot macos if you still need it. don't try and keep
yaboot on macos partition forever, its more trouble then its worth.
> I have a new IMac DV and BootX doesn't work, I have to use
> yaboot. I've found some docs on ydl's site that show how to use it but when I try
> and supplement the debian kernel and ramdisk it gets ugly.
you need a yaboot.conf, and debian's kernel may not work with yaboot
(unless its been updated recently it wont)
yaboot.conf:
image=linux
initrd=root1440.bin
initrd-size=8192
label=install
should do it assuming the boot floppy kernel and root image are next
to yaboot (at the root of your bootstrap filesystem, probably a macos partition)
> Oh well, this is why Linux is fun, right? :-)
yup ;-)
> -Todd
> >
> > There is no, I repeat, no secret documentation (R. Nixon)
heh indeed :P
--
Ethan Benson
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