Re: yaboot e.a. on IBM 7248-133 (PReP)?
On 7 Jun, this message from Chris Tillman echoed through cyberspace:
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:46:38PM +0200, Gerhard Kroder wrote:
>> After some weirdnesses with this, i finally have woody running on my
>> 7248-133. I still use these "carolina..." image, booting with a floppy
>> disk. I couldn't get the "make bootable" option get done what is should
>> during base floppy installation. So i looked around in the later running
>> system and found man pages for yabootconfig, ybin, mkoboot ea. i created
>> with yabootconfig a base /etc/yaboot.conf, added nonvram and fstype=raw,
>> as man page tells. i created a bootable "typ 41" partiton of 2 mb with
>> cfdisk during installation as /dev/sda1, which should then carry the
>> bootloader i tried to install with mkoboot. But it didn't work. When
>> rebooting, the systeme want to eat the original SMS floppy disk.
>>
>> So, how do i make my PReP system boot from HD? Is yaboot good for this?
>
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>
> Hmmm, you said /dev/sda1, but on powerpc the first partition is reserved
> for the partition map. Maybe you should go back in with mac-fdisk instead
> of cfdisk and make that /dev/sda2 (Probably will need to shave a bit off
> the 2MB to let the partition map be sda1).
On _PowerMacs_ (or rather Macs in general) the first partition is the
partition table. That's Apple's partition scheme. I have no idea what
partitioning scheme PreP machines use; but I doubt they'd use Apple's...
Cheers
Michel
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