On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 02:02:10PM -0600, pohl wrote: > image. In my case, the files were > yaboot > yaboot.conf > vmlinux-2.2.15pre14-ben1 > ramdisk.image.gz > > Ugh, I've been racking my brain to remember exactly what > the yaboot.conf file looked like, but can't off the top of > my head. device=hd: timeout=20 image=vmlinux-2.2.15pre14-ben1 label=install initrd=ramdisk.image.gz initrd-size=8192 > 4) Once you're in the open firmware prompt, type > boot zip:yaboot actually boot zip:,yaboot but the comma may not be required, depends on how anal your variety of OF is. > where "yaboot" is the name you saved the yaboot binary as, > which was, at one time, "yaboot_0.6" in my case. > > > 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 the current version is in proposed-updates deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ dists/proposed-updates/ the new yaboot/ybin package is also there, apt-get update apt-get install powerpc-utils yaboot will get you the new yaboot/ybin and nvsetenv. the debian package in proprosed-updates contains ybin-0.29, the current version. please test! > Someone else may have a more recent version. This was the one that > got me going. see above. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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