Re: trying to boot with yaboot
On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 04:26:11PM -0400, Fred Heitkamp wrote:
>
> <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
devalias
might show you a shorter way to type it, but it looks like you could
put in
boot /pci@f2000000/ATTO,ExpressPCIProUL366@12/@6:7,yaboot
Another option is to edit the yaboot.conf next to the yaboot you can boot,
to set
device=/pci@f2000000/ATTO,ExpressPCIProUL366@12/@6:
partition=7
root=/dev/sdb2
>
> 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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