Re: debian ppc on g5 2nd SATA disc

[Wesley Smith <wesley.hoke@gmail.com>]

Right.  That's what I gathered from the thread.  What I don't know how
to do us access the config file and set the path. i.e. How do I mount
the partition?

thanks,
wes

On 5/30/05, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> 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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