On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 01:28:47AM +1300, Stephen Judd wrote: > (apologies for MS-cruft - I'm at work) > > That message you refer to was probably from me, just playing the part of > a concerned citizen. I have no pretensions to moderating anything. > > yaboot may sound extreme, but it's the way. it's not that hard tho. all > you need is: > > - a copy of yaboot at the top level of the directory structure of the > boot partition > - a valid yaboot.conf, also in / of your boot partition > - the ability to hold down cmd-opt-O-F at boot > - type "boot hd:n,yaboot" where n is the partition number > > You can make it more convenient with yabin etc, but my fingers are so > used to doing this automatically that I can't be bothered setting it up > any more. :-) in fact ybin makes it quite a bit simpler, especially when you use the one from potato r2 with powerpc-utils from potato r2, here is a yaboot.conf for setting up yaboot on a macos boot partition: boot=unconfigured ## ^^^^^^^^^^^^ change to macos partition device=hd: ## ^^^ only change this if your not using internal ATA disk, use ## `ofpath /dev/sda' to find the right value for scsi partition=3 ## ^ partition number of your root filesystem delay=10 timeout=20 install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot ## Comment out if you have a newworld compatible nvsetenv (ybin can ## likely detect the incompatible version) when commented out ybin ## will update the boot-device variable in OpenFirmware to the ## bootstrap partition. #nonvram #^^^^^^^ comment this out! ## add nobless otherwise macos won't boot anymore (since we are ## sharing with a macos partition) nobless ## make yaboot files invisable in macos hide ## make yaboot files read-only in macos protect image=/vmlinux label=Linux root=/dev/hda3 read-only ## enable boot menu with a MacOS entry: macos=/dev/macospartition then just run `ybin' note your macos partition must not be mounted, if its mounted use the `mntpoint=/mntpoint' option, see yaboot.conf for more details. this will build the boot menu and set OpenFirmware's boot-device variable to boot it directly so you need not fsck with OF at all. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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