Re: usb support
--- pohl <pohl@screaming.org> wrote:
>
> > p.s. I'm using bootx, which is not recommended for
> new-worlds, but I don't
> > know what else to use, and i'm not at all sure
> that that's the problem.
>
> This could account for it. I had to use yaboot when
> installing
> on my G4.
>
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
"Once the installation was over with, getting yaboot
written to
its partition took some playing. There's a program
called
"ybin" that does this job for you. Incidentally,
there's an
alternate name under which you invoke "ybin", called
"mkofboot".
Invoking it this way causes the bootstrap partition to
be freshly
formatted (HFS). You have to do this the first time
you run ybin.
Running it this way also helps to make sure an old
configuration
is properly overwritten.
There were a couple of deb packages that I needed that
were
NOT on the installation CD. You see, the ybin program
needs to
run a program called "nvsetenv" in order to make
OpenFirmware
boot off of the yaboot partition automagically -- but
it needed
to be a more recent version of nvsetenv than was in
potato when
it was released. You can get it by installing
http://screaming.org/~pohl/powerpc-utils_1.1.3-2_powerpc.deb
Someone else may have a more recent version. This was
the one that
got me going. "
pohl's right with the instructions, follew them and u
should be fine. if u dont have a zip disk, boot off
the CD if u can. u dont need that 'nvsetenv' program
to get your computers OF to boot into the yaboot's
bootstrap partition though. either place the
Apple_Bootstrap partition before the main MacOS
partition (which means reformattin the whole disk
unless u can move partitions around, im not sure if u
can with mac-fdisk), or place the Apple_Bootstrap
partition in the next available freespace, with at
least 800k. then, after u run mkofboot, reboot into OF
(Apple+Option+O+F)
and type this at the OF's prompt 0> :
setenv boot-device path-to-bootsrap-device:X, \\:tbxi
replacing "path-to-bootstrap-device" with the device
the bootstrap partition is on (hd for ur first ata
harddrive, ultra1 for ur second) and replacing X with
the partition number the bootstrap partition is.
ex: setenv boot-device hd:9,\\:tbxi
then type boot and it should work. for some reason, if
your yaboot.conf file doesnt point to the correct
place for your linux kernel, and u type in the place
at the yaboot prompt manually, u get a kernel panic
and it never boots. if that happens, boot with ur CD
or zip, hmount the bootstrap partition, edit the
yaboot.conf file urself, uhmount the partition, and
reboot.
settin the env in OF is how i got OF to use the
bootstrap partition and not the macos partition.. but
i think if u zap the pram it sets ur OF back to
default. im not sure i havent done that yet.
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