On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 02:39:41PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:27:40PM -0600, Mark K. Gardner wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > 6) When prompted to set up booting from the hard disk, I escape to a
> > shell and install yaboot:
> >
> > mkofboot --boot /dev/hda9 -m /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot --root \
> > /dev/hda11 --partition 11
> >
> > 7) Finally I reboot expecting to finish the Debian install. Instead
> > MacOS boots.
>
> Because the nvram didn't get changed.
mkofboot by default alters nvram, unless he had bootfloppies older
then potato r2. however r2 yaboot/ybin may not be compatible with all
new machines. r3 is.
> Here's what _should_ work:
> Boot the debian install CD, but tell it root=/dev/hda11, so that it runs your
> install not the installer (or it _should_, I haven't used the CDs).
> After doing the normal configure/setup stuff, apt-get install yaboot, so
> you have yaboot/ybin, then configure /etc/yaboot.conf so that it has the
> bootstrap as hd:9 and root is hda11 (or so, this is from memory..) Also
> uncomment the nonvram bit and oh yeah, apt-get install powerpc-utils, so
> you'll have a good nvsetenv/et al, and run ybin. Then reboot and you
> should be able to go into linux. Since you said you had linux/os9.1/osx going
> before I'm assuming you've configured ybin/yaboot before. :)
>
> Something akin to all of this worked on my G4/466 a while back...
boot=/dev/hda9
device=hd:
partition=11
timeout=20
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
image=/vmlinux
label=Linux
root=/dev/hda11
read-only
should work, but so should have the mkofboot command.
is this not the primary master IDE disk?
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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