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

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 02:50  am, Patrick Baltz wrote:

> 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.
Thanks Pat

I'm persevering with the current yaboot (see posting in response to 
Derek Pates) but if that line of enquiry fails I'll revert to plan B ;-)

I feel my problem is related to yaboot expecting both a 
MacOSX_bootstrap AND MacOSX_second_stage partition.  Whereas I just 
have one HFS partition with MacOSX and OS9.2 installed with no separate 
boot partition (other than the yaboot one).

Regards

Clive
> 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
>
>
>
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