On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 11:29:59AM -0500, pohl wrote: > > Josh Huber <huberj@wpi.edu> > > > > I'm using 0.5, which is think is the latest version. > > I just set the boot-device to hd:9,yaboot_0.5 > > I think this explains the difference between your machine > and mine. I have been trying to make a partition of type > "Apple_Bootstrap" to install ybin onto. You, on the other > hand, are just using as small HFS partition. if this mattered to OpenFirmware you would not be able to load yaboot at all. a sidenote that OSX server uses the Apple_Bootstrap partition to boot, since it uses UFS for a filesystem it has a bootloader similer to yaboot stored there. ybin will work fine with a ordinarly Apple_HFS bootstrap partition, the probllem is you must NEVER boot macos becuase it will mount and make it unbootable when it sees that there is no real macos. > I know for a fact that I could also get my machine to work > this way. I had been too focused on trying to get ybin > set up, because I was hoping to eventually make a dual-boot > configuration with MacOS. > > We still don't have an instance of a post-speedbump G4 > that uses yaboot _with_ ybin successfully, but now I know > how to get around it -- if I'm willing to do without dual-boot. try a debug build of yaboot, i can compile one for you if need be. I want to see what yaboot is trying to do, i think its still mangling the OF path under some circumstances. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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