trying to boot with yaboot
<continuing saga of me trying to boot Linux on my snakebite G4>
I copied the yaboot binary, a Linux kernel and a yaboot.conf
to the root of my OS 9 partition. I tried to get to yaboot
using OF sd:7,yaboot but that just boots OS 9 again.
After trying that a few times with variations and getting
nowhere. I thought I'd try booting yaboot off the Debian CD.
I gave the command "boot cd:,\\yaboot" from OF and got
the boot: prompt from yaboot. At least that was something.
Now I'm kind of stuck again because I have to give the correct
device and path to my kernel image. I can't figure out how
to construct the path.
Note that there is a working Debian system on disk 2. I just
need to get it booted.
This is the ATTO PCI SCSI card.
/pci@f0000000
/ATTO,ExpressPCIProUL366@12
/sd
/ATTO,ExpressPCIProUL366@12,1
/sd
This is how the boot-device for OS 9 is shown from OF:
boot-device
/pci@f2000000/ATTO,ExpressPCIProUL366@12/@6:7,\\:tbxi hd:,\\:tbxi
On my Linux disk my kernel image is in the root of /dev/sdb2
This what my two SCSI disks look like with pdisk:
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/scsi0.6' (/dev/sda)
#: type name length base ( size )
1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
2: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 54 @ 64
3: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 74 @ 118
4: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 192
5: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 704
6: Apple_HFS "yaboot" 1782512 @ 1216 (870.4M)
7: Apple_HFS "OS 9" 12291638 @ 1783728 ( 5.9G)
8: Apple_HFS "X" 32183916 @ 14075366 ( 15.3G)
9: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 A/UX Root 25052722 @ 46259282 ( 11.9G)
10: Apple_Free 375336 @ 71312004 (183.3M)
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/scsi1.1' (/dev/sdb)
#: type name length base ( size )
1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
2: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 usr 4194304 @ 64 ( 2.0G)
3: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 export 12582912 @ 4194368 ( 6.0G)
4: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 1059388 @ 16777280 (517.3M)
Fred
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