Re: Booting PowerMac G3 OldWorld....
the "p" command referenced below was really the "c" ciommand, sorry...
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 08:47, Corey Kovacs wrote:
> Ok, last night I realized that the problem might be that I patitioned the
> drive for yellowdog using BootX to boot so I repartitioned the drive.
> I tried yaboot again so I cleared out the drive with the "i" command, then
> created the 800K bootstrap partition using "b", then a root partition using
> "p", then 3P called it Root, then swap with "p", 4P and called it "swap",
> the installer initialized and mounted everything, then I tried yaboot, no
> good, again told me it was an Oldworld machine (I thought it might be a
> mistake if I'd done too many things wrong, this just verified yaboot was
> right) so then I went back to the partitioning, used "r" to move the
> bootstrap partition to 4P, used the "make system bootable" option, then ran
> nvsetenv boot-device `ofpath /dev/hda2` as hda2 was not the root instead of
> hda3 from a shell.
>
> Long story short, it still won't boot. I am going to try to do the whol
> thing over without the bootstrap partition and see how that goes. Before I
> venture off, does anyoine see anything that I might have done wrong?
>
> Corey
>
> On Tuesday 11 June 2002 00:16, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 04:11:07PM -0500, Corey Kovacs wrote:
> > > That's not worked either. devalias tells me that
> > > ide0 is set to /pci/mac-io/ide@20000 so I do...
> > >
> > > setenv boot-device ide0/ata-disk@0:9
> > >
> > > then try booting by typing "boot" but it give a similar error...
> > >
> > > typing in the whole path does me no good either....
> > >
> > > Question, if I can eventually use quik, do I need the Mac OS installed?
> >
> > Yes, you can do away with MacOS if quik works.
> >
> > Did you run the Make hard Disk Bootable step in the installer? That's
> > what actually installs quik to the boot block. The nvsetenv part is
> > just to set the OpenFirmware variable, which seems not to be the
> > problem.
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