On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 07:17:58AM -0400, Media 100 wrote: > Ethan, > Thanks for the message, I really appreciate it Your answer raises a further > question, if you don't mind: Can I get a different version of yaboot that > will work? Ideally via download and burning it to a CD that will boot, but > if that can't be made to work then in some other fashion. I would be most > grateful for any suggestions. > Mike well one thing that didn't occur to me in my early reply, are you trying to boot the kernel on your hard disk, or just boot the CD kernel using the hard disk as the root partition instead of the initrd? if the latter you can do it with the old yaboot, just do as walters suggested and enter at the boot: prompt debian root=/dev/hda3 arguments you can change, its just syntax like this thats broken in that version of yaboot: hd:3,/boot/vmlinux as for booting an alternate yaboot sure, just netboot it, or put it on a CD with a yaboot.conf next to it. if you telling it to boot from the hard disk the conf is nothing unusal, if from the CD thats different.. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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