On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:21:12PM -0800, Blue Thomas wrote: > 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 yes you can, use the `r' command to do this, there is a note on how that works in my partitioning doc at: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc/ > 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. no no no, you edit /etc/yaboot.conf and rerun the `ybin' command. you should never have to manipulate the bootstrap partition yourself. > 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. yes default OF configuration will work so long as your bootstrap partition is before any macos partitions, and you used ybin in the reccommended way. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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