Re: munged yaboot.conf
I'm using a G5. I can get to the yaboot menu, but no further. To get
further, I have to edit yaboot.conf. Is there a way to access it from
the menu? Otherwise, are there any other techniques besides using a
live Ubuntu disc?
thanks,
wes
On 5/31/05, Mike S <michael_six@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Wesley Smith wrote:
>
> >I'm curious as to how it was done by someone else on this list back in
> >February. By what they wrote in the thread, they seemed to be able to
> >access the yaboot.conf from a shell obtained from the installer after
> >mounting the drive. I need to do the same thing on my system since I
> >installed debian on the 2nd drive. Here's the reference:
> >
> >http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/02/msg00081.html
> >
> >wes
> >
> >On 5/31/05, Jack Malmostoso <jackmalmostoso@freesurf.ch> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 06:10:07 +0200, james houston wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>What is the best direction to go then?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>This kind of sucks, since it's not enough to edit yaboot.conf but you also
> >>have to issue "ybin" on the CLI (that's why I hope Grub2 comes as soon as
> >>possible).
> >>
> >>Try booting with a livecd (Ubuntu's will do just fine), chroot yourself
> >>into your linux partition and make all the changes you need. You will
> >>probably need to mount also your /proc filesystem (I remember I had to
> >>when I was in your situation).
> >>
> >>Good luck!
> >>
> >>--
> >>Best Regards, Jack
> >>Linux user #264449
> >>Now on iBook!
> >>
> >>
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> In these new powerbooks are you not able to open OpenFirmware at boot
> anymore I do not know how to edit the yaboot.conf file, from OS X, but
> I know that I have always been able to use a simple boot argument from
> yaboot, and to get there I have aways used option at boot if the yaboot
> partition isn't activley bootable. Ofcourse if you can't even get into
> the part after hitting l then I don't know, except that if you hold
> command option o f at boot then open firmware should boot up into which
> you should be able to enter a direct boot kernel, bypassing yaboot, [I
> think] someone correct me if I'm wrong
>
> --Mike S
>
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