Re: base system woes on ibook2 (not 12 hours old)
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 06:05:11AM -0400, K Clark wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:28:14PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:31:16AM -0400, K Clark wrote:
> > >
> > > first caveat, this is my initial foray into mac hardware, w/exp. on i386
> > > w/linux.
> > >
> > > ibook2 brand spanking new. followed several online guides
>
> after a long night of hacking and applying myself, i tore it up.
Naw it's there...
> got debian fully installed. had sound & x running windowmaker smoothly. then,
> damn yaboot threw me for a loop.
Blame MacOS/OSX ...
> i can't get linux to start up after editing yaboot.conf and adding os9 and
> osx. i can't think of anything i did. i edited by adding the macosx=hd:10
> line and ran ybin.
It's made clear in the yaboot-HOWTO that your bootstrap partition
should precede your NacOS/OSX partitions. And is it the recommended
type Apple_Bootstrap? Take a look at the HOWTO's Common Mistakes, Boot
Menu Options, and Recovering from Misconfiguration options.
You can boot into your Linux install manually, there are several
options but here's one, since I know you have the 4 starter files on
the root of some partition.
Get into OpenFirmware and recite the magic incantation boot hd:xx,yaboot
like you did when starting the installer. When the boot: prompt comes up,
instead of typing install or some such, type the OpenFirmware path to
your Linux root partition's kernel, e.g. hd:8,/vmlinux. You can type
help at the boot: prompt for guidance on constructing a path.
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