Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

[Patrick Baltz <pbaltz@cs.wisc.edu>]

I had something similar happen to me with my pismo powerbook at one 
point.  I think I ended up reinstalling yaboot cleanly with an older 
version.  I never investigated or had enough knowledge to figure out the 
actual cause, but I think it may have be a corrupted file or something.

Maybe try pulling yaboot from the testing release using apt-get. Or 
compile yaboot and install from scratch.

Just a suggestion.  Someone else probably has a much better anwser.

Regards,

Pat

Clive Menzies wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've read Chris's excellent HOWTO on Booting with Yaboot on PowerPC and 
> the penguinppc.org mac-fdisk doc.  Have created and reordered the 
> Apple-Bootstrap partition to /dev/hda2.  I can OF boot Linux and can get 
> into OSX by holding down Option key during start-up.  But I am having 
> trouble getting Yaboot to work properly.
>
> OSX 10.2 was installed over OS 9,2 on the same HFS partition (/dev/hda10).
>
> Partition Map /dev/hda1
> Apple_bootstrap /dev/hda2
> Apple_Driver 43 /dev/hda3
> Apple_Driver 43 /dev/hda4
> Apple_Driver_ATA /dev/hda5
> Apple_Driver_ATA /dev/hda6
> Apple_FWDriver /dev/hda7
> Apple_Driver_IOKit  /dev/hda8
> Apple_patches  /dev/hda9
> Apple HFS  /dev/hda10 MacOSX/OS9
> Apple_Unix /dev/hda11 / (root)
> Apple_Unix /dev/hda12 swap
> Apple_Unix /dev/hda13 /usr
> Apple_Unix /dev/hda14 /var
> Apple_Unix /dev/hda15/tmp
> Apple_Unix /dev/hda 16 /home
> Apple_free Apple_Unix /dev/hda17
>
> yaboot.conf contains:
>
> macosx=hd:10 (I also tried macos=hd:10)
>
> I've run ybin after changes
>
> But straight booting sticks on something like "Starting bootstrap second 
> stage ...." and just stops.  If I reboot into OF and type "boot 
> hd:2,yaboot", Linux boots fine (I used the sample yaboot.conf from 6.5 
> Kernel Image settings).
>
> I don't really want to repartition (too much important stuff on MacOSX 
> to lose).  Am I missing something obvious?
>
> TIA
>
> Regards
>
> Clive