Re: About yabootconfig
Hi Nick,
last night I did it again... :-)
due to a bad kernel I lost control of my linuxbox after start and had
to force a reboot as the system had frozen solid.
Problem I couldn't see my ext2 partition from OSX so that possibility
wasn't there anymore. I had however noted down the exact path to my
working kernel (which, btw, is spelled vmlinux-2.4.18) and have tried
to start from yaboot.
Unfortunately that didn't work either as something along the path was
wrong and couldn't boot from hd:14,/boot/vmlinux-2.4.18 which is my
working kernel and relevant path.
Any idea about the syntax? I have double checked the yaboot instruction
and also tried ending the path with a, (comma) or no comma at the end.
I found a usefull workaround to this situation by booting the debian
installer cd and after monting the linux partition on /target I
switched console and was able to cancel the symlink to the bad kernel
and restore the old one.
This worked flawlessy (very clever isn't it?? :-)) but there must be a
better way....
As for the ext2 possibility on the mac in OSX if you (or anybody else)
are interested you can find it here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/
There still are some bugs but it works well
Cheers
Pieterjan
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