Re: Swithed disk into aonother system, now yaboot refueses to boot

[David Pye <dmp@davidmpye.dyndns.org>]

On Thursday 25 November 2004 12:21, Christoph Ewering wrote:
> Just to let everybody know that got trapped with the same problem and
> how to solve this problem:
> Read:
> http://www.penguinppc.org/bootloaders/yaboot/doc/yaboot-howto.shtml
> Especially chapter 9.
>
> I solved the booting problem with jumping into OF and typing
> boot ultra1:2,\\:yaboot and after yaboot loads I typed
> "ultra1:3,/boot/vmlinuxtest root=/dev/hdb3 ro" and voila Linux boots

> :-) but crashes when I wants to load the xserver. Looks like the
>
> different G4s use different pci-addresses for the graphiccard :-(
>
> Now I will do the following:
> Install Ext2FS-support for MacOS X, mount the linux-root-partition,
> remove the links that start the xserver from /etc/rc2.d and restart.
> Than I am going to fix the boot-problem with ybin and look for the
> right pci-address.

Ouch. Easy trick:

"ultra1:3,/boot/vmlinuxtest root=/dev/hdb3 ro init=/bin/bash"

voila, shell on boot, no start of X.

Then you can edit what you need to edit :)

David