Re: yaboot dual boot problems
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, pohl wrote:
> There was a routing problem between us and them.org (and I was
> impatient to try your suggestion) so I grabbed the tarball for
> ybin 0.21 off of alaska.net. Since I wasn't using the deb, I
> didn't have to worry about the .sh extension on the ofboot.b file.
>
> When installed with mkofboot or ybin, everything appears to go
> fine, with the exception of a warning about nvsetenv being an
> incompatible version.
>
> Upon reboot, all I get is the flashing question-mark-on-a-folder
> after a pause. I tried explicitly going into OF and setting
> setenv boot-device hd:5,\\:tbxi
You need to tell OF to boot ofboot.b (try using the file name rather than
the tbxi file type).
If you get an updated nvsetenv, ybin will do this for you. The new version
is in powerpc-utils 1.1.3. The deb is in woody now, as well as them.org.
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