Re: Ybin and ofboot.b questions
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:32:53AM +0100, Renato Barrios wrote:
> Hi,
> I would want to turn debian in an iMac with Mac0s 9.
> I partitioned my hard disk with the apple tool and changed order with fdisk
> -r to
> /dev/hda1 Apple_Bootstrap
I don't know how you could have done this, partition 1 on Apple
volumes is reserved for the partition map. If you really did do this,
you need to start over, I don't think your computer will be able to
read the drive. hda2 is the ideal location for Apple_Bootstrap.
> /dev/hda2-/dev/hda7 Apple map and others
> /dev/hda9 HFS
> /dev/hda 10 Swap
> /dev/hda 11 Linux Native partition
> I can install the system and reboot once writing in a shell
> mkofboot --boot /dev/hda1 -m /target/etc/etc/ofboot.b --root /dev/hda11
> --partition 11
> with ofboot.b being the example menu_ofboot.b of the yaboot documentation.
> I could have the dselect menu installing some packages that run normally.
> After that I can't boot in debian or see the menu of choice. When I run ybin
> with the same options it erases Mac 0s.
This is probably due to the partition map getting wiped out. Just try
moving all your partitions up by one, that should be better.
mkofboot and ybin are actually the same program under the covers. The
only difference is that mkofboot re-initializes the bootstrap
partition before doing the same thing ybin does.
I think you're getting closer!
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