On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:33:04AM -0800, ÀÌÁØ°É wrote: > How do I override the yaboot.conf manually? you can type an full path to a image in the boot: prompt, though unfortunatly this is broken on yaboot 0.9, you can also boot a image on the yaboot command line which might work on 0.9 at the boot prompt you can type for example: hd:17,/boot/vmlinux root=/dev/hda17 or on the yaboot command line first boot into OF and type: boot hd:X,yaboot hd:17,/boot/vmlinux root=/dev/hda17 > I was playing with the partition table in order to use > the HD more efficiently. I even editted > /etc/yaboot.conf but was stupid enough not to remember > to run ybin before rebooting. So, my "rescue" > partition is /dev/hda17 but yaboot currently thinks it > is /dev/hda16 and refuse to boot. When I press <tab>, > yaboot tells me that I can type in custom image > locations, but I can't figure out the correct format > of the location. you may have the right format, its just that 0.9 doesn't allow this. > My goal is to be able to boot from /dev/hda17/vmlinux > with /dev/hda17 as the root partition WITHOUT the help > of yaboot.conf. My pismo has no HFS or HFS+ partition > and I do not have a bootable linux CD... the format would be: hd:17,/boot/vmlinux root=/dev/hda17 if you have another machine on the network you could also use bootp. and netboot. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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