Re: Advice on a iBook ...
--- Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote:
> 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.
thats right, its not APPLE_Bootstrap ... its
Apple_Bootstrap (typo ... sorry) ...
> > /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)
Thanks for the advice ... I'll do that.
> 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.
I'll do that to.
> > /* 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.
Yes, default is only for the kernel image ...
> > "/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.
Its already fixed with the correct "default="
> --
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
>
Thanks ...
Carlos.
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