On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 09:04:22AM -0700, CaRLoS mOGUeL wrote: > Based on ... > > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc/mac-fdisk-basics.txt > > Now my partition table is ... > > /dev/hda1 ... > /dev/hda2 ... > /dev/hda3 ... > /dev/hda4 ... > /dev/hda5 ... > /dev/hda6 ... > /dev/hda7 ... > /dev/hda8 APPLE_Bootstrap bootstrap (800.0K) i hope its actually Apple_Bootstrap, i believe OF is case sensitive. > /dev/hda9 APPLE_UNIX_SVR2 swap (100.0M) > /dev/hda10 APPLE_UNIX_SVR2 / (1001.3M) > /dev/hda11 Apple_HFS untitled2 (2.0G) // MacOS > /dev/hda7 ... > > I installed first the MacOS side an then Debian 2.2r0, > before restarting the Debian installation a opened a > shell a edited the yaboot.conf file like this ... > > default=Linux > boot=/dev/hda8 > macos=/dev/hda11 > device=hd: > delay=20 > timeout=20 > install=/target/boot/yaboot > magicboot=/target/etc/ofboot.b when you upgrade to a newwer yaboot ( i highly reccomend the packages at penguinppc for potato: deb http://master.penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/debian/ potato main) you must change install= to install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot and magicboot to /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot (no .b) then run `ybin' to update the bootstrap. > /* After the firts reboot I changed the path to > /boot/yaboot and /etc/ofboot.b without the /target */ > > image=/vmlinux > label=Linux > root=/dev/hda10 > append="video=atyfb:mode:800x600-8" > read-only > partition=10 > > An use mkofboot -v -C /target/etc/yaboot.conf with no > errors. Now I boot straight to the Linux side and if I > keep the option key pushed it loads the graphical > loader between MacOS and Debian, I tried to change the > default OS to MacOS and choose Debian using the option > key ... I changed the "default" line to "macos" and thats wrong, see the man page, default only affects the default linux kernel, you want to add defaultos=macos. > "/dev/hda11" in the yaboot.conf with no success ... > any other way ? (I run ybin after every modification > in the yaboot.conf file). > > As a note ... everytime I boot into linux it said > hd:8,\\:tbxi loading Kernel ... not a valid ELF image. thats probably due to default= being wrong. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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