On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 02:45:17PM +0200, franck routier wrote: > I went thru the installation process (first partition the hard drive, with > a Apple_Bootstrap partition first), and before 'Make system bootable', I > opened a terminal (apple+right arrow) and installed yaboot (anyway I > thought I was installing yaboot) : > mkofboot -b /dev/hda9 -m /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot --root /dev/hda11 you didn't read the docs close enough, you neglected to specify --partition 11 that is required and why yaboot is failing. > What I don't get is where the kernel is at the first reboot, while the > system is not installed yet. There is a /target/vmlinux symlink, but if I > try > > hd:11/target/vmlinux > > at the yaboot boot: prompt, it doesn't find it... the problem is yaboot is looking for hd:3,/vmlinux you need to rerun mkofboot with the additional command line switch --partition 11 like the docs say and then yaboot will find the kernel just fine. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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