Re: debian ppc on g5 2nd SATA disc
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 21:59 -0700, Wesley Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've installed debian on a second G5 disc and am trying to follow the
> February thread about getting it to boot. I ran into exactly the same
> situation as Pedro where I get a yaboot menu, type in 'l', and get the
> graphical 'option' menu back.
>
> In any case, my question regards mounting the partitions on my second
> disc from the installer. Here is what I picked up from the thread:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/02/msg00081.html:
>
> "To run these commands I boot from the CD and get all the partitions
> mounted. Then I exit to a shell from the main installer menu. Therefore,
> could it be that because all these partitions on the second drive are
> mounted at that point, the ofpath command simply returns an abbreviated
> version of the full path?"
>
> Now, how do I mount the partitions from the installer? I tried a few
> things, but when I exited to the shell, there was no '/target'
> available to cd into and edit my yaboot settings or at least see what
> they are. Any help would be appreciated.
ofpath gets it wrong I think, you'd have to setup the path yourself.
Ben
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